GATE ME 2021 Set 1 — Question 43

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Customers arrive at a shop according to the Poisson distribution with a mean of 10 customers/hour. The manager notes that no customer arrives for the first 3 minutes after the shop opens. The probability that a customer arrives within the next 3 minutes is

\lambda = 10\text{ customers/hour} = 1/6\text{ customers/minute}

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\lambda = 10\text{ customers/hour} = 1/6\text{ customers/minute}

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