A machine can process two online applications in 60 minutes. Answer the following questions. What would be an appropriate random variable? What would be the exponential-distribution counterpart to the random variable? Identify the mean of x, where x = minutes until the next occurrence and determine the following:  P (x ≥ 30.0) P (x ≤ 10) The machine must be disconnected for service for 45 minutes. What is the probability that an online application will be sent while the machine is out of service?

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A machine can process two online applications in 60 minutes. Answer the following questions.

  1. What would be an appropriate random variable? What would be the exponential-distribution counterpart to the random variable?
  2. Identify the mean of x, where x = minutes until the next occurrence and determine the following: 
    1. P (x ≥ 30.0)
    2. P (x ≤ 10)
  3. The machine must be disconnected for service for 45 minutes. What is the probability that an online application will be sent while the machine is out of service?
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Given that a machine processes 2 applications per hour. This process can be modeled as a Poisson process with rate λ

(1) Let λ>0 be fixed. The counting process {N(t),t[0,)}is called a Poisson process with rateλ if all the following conditions hold:

  1. N(0)=0;
  2. N(t) has independent increments;
  3. the number of arrivals in any interval of length t>0 has Poisson(λt) distribution.

The exponential distribution counterpart to the Poisson random variable is as follows:

If N(t) is a Poisson process with rate λ, then the inter arrival times X1X2 are independent and

  XiExponential(λ),      for i=1,2,3,⋯.
 
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