Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Excel (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781285433301
Author: David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney, Thomas A. Williams
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 6.3, Problem 31E
Collina’s Italian Café in Houston, Texas, advertises that carryout orders take about 25 minutes (Collina’s website, February 27, 2008). Assume that the time required for a carryout order to be ready for customer pickup has an exponential distribution with a
- a. What is the
probability that a carryout order will be ready within 20 minutes? - b. If a customer arrives 30 minutes after placing an order, what is the probability that the order will not be ready?
- c. A particular customer lives 15 minutes from Collina’s Italian Café. If the customer places a telephone order at 5:20 P.M., what is the probability that the customer can drive to the café, pick up the order, and return home by 6:00 P.M.?
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Modern Business Statistics with Microsoft Excel (MindTap Course List)
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