People arrive at a library to borrow books according to a Poisson process with a mean rate

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People arrive at a library to borrow books according to a Poisson process with a mean rate of 15 people per hour. There are two attendants at the library, and the time to serve each person by either attendant is exponentially distributed with a mean of 3 minutes.

a. What is the probability that an arriving person will have to wait?

b. What is the probability that one or both attendants are idle?

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