A telephone call arrived at a switchboard at random within a 1-minute interval. The switchboard was fully busy for 20 seconds into this 1-minute interval. Identify the distributin of the arrivaltime of the telephone call. What is probability that the call arrived when the switch board was notbusy.

A telephone call arrived at a switchboard at random within a 1-minute interval. The switchboard was fully busy for 20 seconds into this 1-minute interval. Identify the distributin of the arrivaltime of the telephone call. What is probability that the call arrived when the switch board was notbusy.

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