4. At U of A, newly enrolled freshmen students are notorious for wanting to drive their cars...
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4. At U of A, newly enrolled freshmen students are notorious for wanting to drive their cars to class (even though most of them are required to live on campus and can conveniently make use of the university free transit system). During the first couple of weeks of the fall semester, traffic havoc prevails on campus as freshmen try desperately to find parking spaces. With unusual dedication, the students wait patiently in the lanes of the parking lot for someone to leave so they can park their cars. Let us consider a specific scenario: The parking lot has 30 parking spaces but am also accommodate 10 more cars in the lanes.1l1ese additional 10 cars cannot park in the lanes permanently and must await the availability of one of the 30 parking spaces. Freshman students arrive at the parking lot according to a Poisson distribution, with a mean of 20 cars per hour. The parking time per car averages about 60 minutes but actually follows an exponential distribution.
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(a) What is the percentage of freshmen who are turned away because they cannot enter the lot?
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