Checkpoint 8.7.2. - Customer arrivals - Total.

Customers arrive at your store on the average of 10 per hour. Assuming that the arrival of customers satisfies the properties of a Poisson process, determine:
  1. the expected number of customers to arrive in a given 3 hour period.
  2. the probability that fewer than 10 customers arrive in a given hour.
Solution.
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