10.a. Telephone calls arrive at an exchange according to a poisson process at the rate ofone call per minute. What is the probability that at least five minutes have elapsed sincei) the last call arrived? ii) The penultimate call arrived.b. Calculate the probability that no calls arrive during the next two minutes, knowingthat at least one call was received over the last 2 minutes.

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