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Consider the baggage check-in process of a small airline. Check-in data indicate that
from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., 240 passengers checked in. Moreover, based on counting the
number of passengers waiting in line, airport management found that the average number of passengers waiting for check-in was 30. How long did the average passenger have
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