Doctors often schedule more patients each day than they have time to treat becau

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Doctors often schedule more patients each day than they have time to treat because they expect several patients each day to not show up. However, patients are still having to wait well beyond their scheduled appointment time and continue to be very angry. The doctor's assistant collected data over a 6 month period resulting in the following estimated probability distribution for the number of patients who miss their appointment each day [assume the doctor schedules 100 patients each day]. Calculate the expected number of patients who miss appointments, mu_x Based on the above probability distribution, what would you say is the probability that at least 2 patients miss their appointment tomorrow? Based on the above probability distribution, what would you say is the probability that fewer than 5 patient miss their appointment tomorrow?

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ans(c)  answer will be - 2

solution -0*0.1+1*0.2+2*0.4+3*0.2+4*0.1

ans (b) 0.7

ans (C) - answer will be 1

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