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An article in Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology,
Chapter 5, Problem 69E(choose chapter or problem)
Problem 69E
An article in Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy [“Effect of Provider Volume on Resource Utilization for Surgical Procedures” (2005, Vol. 13, pp. 273–279)] showed a mean time of 129 minutes and a standard deviation of 14 minutes for ACL reconstruction surgery for high-volume hospitals (with more than 300 such surgeries per year). If a high-volume hospital needs to schedule 10 surgeries, what are the mean and variance of the total time to complete these surgeries? Assume that the times of the surgeries are independent and normally distributed.
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Problem 69E
An article in Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy [“Effect of Provider Volume on Resource Utilization for Surgical Procedures” (2005, Vol. 13, pp. 273–279)] showed a mean time of 129 minutes and a standard deviation of 14 minutes for ACL reconstruction surgery for high-volume hospitals (with more than 300 such surgeries per year). If a high-volume hospital needs to schedule 10 surgeries, what are the mean and variance of the total time to complete these surgeries? Assume that the times of the surgeries are independent and normally distributed.
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We need to find the mean and variance of the total time to complete these surgeries.