Question: Suppose that the login times to a computer network follows a Poisson process with an average of 4 logins per minute. a) Find the probability of exactly 6 logins in 2 minutes. b) What is the mean time between logins (in seconds)? c) What is the standard deviation of the time between logins (in seconds)? d) Determine the value of x for which the probability that the first login happens before time x seconds is exactly 0.8.

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Question: Suppose that the login times to a computer network follows a Poisson process with an average of 4 logins per minute.

a) Find the probability of exactly 6 logins in 2 minutes.

b) What is the mean time between logins (in seconds)?

c) What is the standard deviation of the time between logins (in seconds)?

d) Determine the value of x for which the probability that the first login happens before time x seconds is exactly 0.8.

(Hint: In the Poisson distribution the random variable is the number of events in a time interval, such as number of logins per unit as in our question. But in the sections b, c, and d of the question, mentioned random variable is the length of time between two successive event (or more general, how much time between a given numbers of event). Obviously, this distribution can also use ? but, here it becomes the rate of occurrence and its unit is 1/time ( but in Poisson distribution ? is expected number of occurrence, as mentioned before, it is unitless), therefore the distribution function becomes different from Poisson distribution. Decide first which distribution you must use than compute random variable).

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