Question

The medical practice you are working at has seen an average of 22.4 patients a day for the past 3 months. 3/4ths of those patients have insurance in one form or another. 1. Describe in a well-written paragraph how you will analyze this scenario and the process you will use to arrive at an answer. 2. Please express to the nearest whole number how many of the patients on average per day do not have insurance, and thus, pay cash price for their visits.

Answer 1

2)

Given:

The average of patients in a day, A=22.4.

The fraction of patients who have insurance, x=3/4.

It is given that 3/4 th of the patients have insurance. It measn 3/4 part of a whole(1). The rest of the patients do not have insurance. Hence, the fraction of patients who have no insurance can be calculated by subtracting 3/4 from 1,

$y=1-\frac{3}{4}=\frac{4-3}{4}=\frac{1}{4}$

So, 1/4 th of the patients have no insurance.

Hence, the average of the patients in a day who do not have insurance is 1/4 th of the average of patients in a day.

Thus, the number of patients on average per day do not have insurance is,

$\begin{gathered} N=Ay \\ =22.4\times\frac{1}{4} \\ =5.6 \\ \cong6 \end{gathered}$

Therefore, the number of patients on average per day who do not have insurance is 6.