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In a multiphasic screening clinic, patients arrive at a rate of one every 5 ± 2 minute to enter the audiology section. The examination takes 3 ± 1 minutes. Eighty percent of the patients were passed on to the next test with no problems. Of the remaining 20%, one-half require simple procedures that take 2 ± I minute and are then sent for reexamination with the same probability of failure. The other half are sent home with medication. Simulate the system to estimate how long it takes to screen and pass 200 patients. (Note: Persons sent home with medication are not considered «passed.”)