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A prison official wants to estimate the proportion of cases of recidivism. Examining the records of 250 convicts, the official determines that there are 65 cases of recidivism. A 99 confidence interval for the proportion of cases of recidivism would go from ________ to ________.
 
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The interval between patients arriving at an outpatient clinic follows an exponential distribution at a rate of 1.5 patients per hour. What is the probability that a randomly chosen arrival interval will be less than 10 minutes?
 
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Amiracle

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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

0.189 to 0.331

Answer to Question 2

0.2212


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Reply 2 on: Jun 24, 2018
Great answer, keep it coming :)

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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