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Percentiles and Box Plots · Superchallenge problem

Waiting times XX (in minutes) at a help desk satisfy P(X>t)=e−tP(X > t) = e^{-t} for every t≥0t \ge 0. The quartiles of this distribution are the times Q1Q_1 and Q3Q_3 with P(X≤Q1)=14P(X \le Q_1) = \tfrac14 and P(X≤Q3)=34P(X \le Q_3) = \tfrac34, and a time is an outlier if it lies more than 1.5⋅IQR1.5 \cdot \text{IQR} below Q1Q_1 or above Q3Q_3. What fraction of all waiting times are outliers? Give the exact value.