What is the mean and standard deviation of the number of pedestrians waiting to cross? What is the probability that nobody is waiting to cross? What is the probability that nobody crosses during the entire one minute Walk cycle?

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  1. Pedestrians arrive at a street crossing according to a Poisson process at a rate of 4 per minute. A traffic light alternates between two states with durations shown below:

Don’t Walk  2 minutes

                                                                   Walk 1 minute

  1. What is the mean and standard deviation of the number of pedestrians waiting to cross?
  2. What is the probability that nobody is waiting to cross?
  3. What is the probability that nobody crosses during the entire one minute Walk cycle?
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