During Normal Business Hours at a Gas Station,customers Arrive,on Average,every

question 146

Essay

During normal business hours at a gas station,customers arrive,on average,every ten minutes.Assume that the distribution of the time between arrivals follows an exponential distribution.Suppose that a customer has just left the gas station.What is the probability that the cashier at the gas station has more than 15 minutes before the next customer arrive?

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Offset

The distance or difference between a specific position and a fixed point, often used in accessing array elements or memory locations.

Address Operator

In programming, an operator used to determine the memory address of a variable.

Variable Pointed

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Indirection Operator

A symbol used in programming (commonly the asterisk * in C/C++) to access the value at a memory address pointed to by a pointer variable.