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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2013 M 1 c Solution by
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Let and be the interarrival times adjacent to the second arrival. They are independent exponential random variables of rate twelve per hour. The second customer meets the first if hour, and meets a later customer if hour. If the third arrives too late, every subsequent customer does also. Thus the only way to meet nobody is for both gaps to be at least five minutes:Hence . Exact equality of arrival and departure times has probability zero. The calculation includes both customers already present and customers arriving during the visit; it is a two-sided interarrival test for overlap.
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