Question: A congested computer network has a 1% chance of losing a data packet and packet losses are independent events. An e-mail message requires 100 packets.

A congested computer network has a 1% chance of losing a data packet and packet losses are independent events. An e-mail message requires 100 packets.

(a) What is the distribution of data packets that must be re- sent? Include the parameter values.

(b) What is the probability that at least one packet must be re-seat?

(c) What is the probability that two or more packets must be re-sent?

(d) What are the mean and standard deviation of the number of packets that must be re-sent?

(e) If there are 10 messages and each contains 100 packets, what is the probability that at least one message requires that two or more packets be re-sent?

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