Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-year-1-of-the-natural-sciences-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2016/paper-1/16/b/iii/solution

The remaining arrivals occur in the next stop phase: , or . B waits until , while A departed at , giving . This interval has length , hence
Endpoint assignments do not affect probabilities. The three outcomes are exhaustive and satisfy
These are conditional probabilities for the stated fixed ; there is no additional averaging over A's arrival phase in the question.

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