The Hoylake Rescue Squad receives an emergency call every 1, 2,3, 4, 5, or 6 hours, according to the following probabilitydistribution:
Time Between Emergency Calls (hours) | Probability |
|---|
1 | 0.05 |
2 | 0.10 |
3 | 0.30 |
4 | 0.30 |
5 | 0.20 |
6 | 0.05 |
| 1.00 |
The squad is on duty 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
a. Simulate the emergency calls for three days (note that thiswill require a “running,” or cumulative, hourly clock) using therandom number table.
