Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-options-ii-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2009/m/m4/d/i/solution

Use independent colour marks, also independent of arrival times, as in the standard marked-process model. Let be the index of the first white arrival. Then and is independent of the interarrival times. Thus . Conditional on , independence makes its moment-generating function a power of , and summing the geometric series gives
This is the exponential distribution of rate , so . The calculation assumes ; if , there is no white arrival and almost surely.

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