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Transcribed Image Text:The time between people arriving to a
softball game in a
window of time is distributed as an exponential random variable
with mean 0.2 minutes.
a. What is the expected number of people arriving per hour?
b. What is the probability that a ticket-checker has to wait at least
2 minutes between two consecutive arrivals?
c. A ticket-checker has waited for 3 minutes without an arrival.
What is the probability that they have to wait at least 2 more
minutes?
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