Suppose that the amount of time a hospital patient must wait for a nurse's help is described by a continuous random variable with density function f(t) = e-t/3 where t≥ 0 is measured in minutes. (a) What is the probability that a patient must wait for more than 4 minutes? (b) A patient spends a week in the hospital and requests nurse assistance once each day. What is the probability that the nurse will take longer than 5 minutes to respond on (exactly) two occasions? (c) What is the probability that on at least one call out of seven, the nurse will take longer than 7 minutes to respond?

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Suppose that the amount of time a hospital patient must wait for a nurse's help is described
by a continuous random variable with density function f(t) = e-t/3 where t≥ 0 is measured
in minutes.
(a) What is the probability that a patient must wait for more than 4 minutes?
(b) A patient spends a week in the hospital and requests nurse assistance once each day.
What is the probability that the nurse will take longer than 5 minutes to respond on
(exactly) two occasions?
(c) What is the probability that on at least one call out of seven, the nurse will take longer
than 7 minutes to respond?
Transcribed Image Text:Suppose that the amount of time a hospital patient must wait for a nurse's help is described by a continuous random variable with density function f(t) = e-t/3 where t≥ 0 is measured in minutes. (a) What is the probability that a patient must wait for more than 4 minutes? (b) A patient spends a week in the hospital and requests nurse assistance once each day. What is the probability that the nurse will take longer than 5 minutes to respond on (exactly) two occasions? (c) What is the probability that on at least one call out of seven, the nurse will take longer than 7 minutes to respond?
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