Business and Management
Suppose the dentists at the Eastin Center for Modern Dentistry in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho, never see a patient on time. The amount of time (in minutes) past the appointment time a random patient must wait to see a dentist has an exponential distribution with l 5 0.01. Suppose a patient is selected at random, and the appointment time has passed.
a. What is the probability that the dentist will see the patient within five minutes after the appointment time? Write a Solution Trail for this problem.
b. Find the probability that the dentist will see the patient between 10 and 20 minutes after the appointment time.
c. Find the probability that the patient will have to wait at least 30 minutes past the appointment time.