A hospital has a 74% chance of receiving a patient every hour during an eight hour night shift. What is the probability that the first patient of the night arrives in the third hour? The seventh hour?
What will be an ideal response?
In this case, “success” is failure: p = 1 - .74 = .26 and P(X = x) = (1 - p)^(x - 1) * p. Thus:
P(X = 3) = (1 - .26)^2 * .26 = .142
P(X = 7) = (1 - .26)^6 * .26 = .043
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