5.4.5 Customers arrive at a certain facility according to a Poisson process of rate . Suppose that...

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5.4.5 Customers arrive at a certain facility according to a Poisson process of rate .

Suppose that it is known that five customers arrived in the first hour. Each customer spends a time in the store that is a random variable, exponentially distributed with parameter and independent of the other customer times, and then departs. What is the probability that the store is empty at the end of this first hour?

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An Introduction To Stochastic Modeling

ISBN: 9780233814162

4th Edition

Authors: Mark A. Pinsky, Samuel Karlin

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