At an urgent care facility, patients arrive at an average rate of one patient every five minutes. Assume that the duration between arrivals is exponentially distributed. (Round your answers to four decimal places.) Part (a) Find the probability that the time between two successive visits to the urgent care facility is less than four minutes. 0.5507 Part (b) Find the probability that the time between two successive visits to the urgent care facility is more than 15 minutes. 0.0408 Part (c) If 10 minutes have passed since the last arrival, what is the probability that the next person will arrive within the next six minutes? 0.8347 Part (d) Find the probability that more than six patients arrive during a half-hour period. 0.1528
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