Mathematics (AS & A Level) · May / June 2019 · Paper 73 · Question 7

Each day at a certain doctor’s surgery there are 70 appointments available in the morning and 60 in the afternoon. All the appointments are filled every day. The probability that any patient misses a particular morning appointment is 0.04, and the probability that any patient misses a particular afternoon appointment is 0.05. All missed appointments are independent of each other. Use suitable approximating distributions to answer the following.

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