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Airline passengers arrive randomly and independently at the passenger-screening facility at a major international airport. The mean arrival rate is passengers per minute.
a. Compute the probability of no arrivals in a one-minute period (to 6 decimals).
b. Compute the probability that three or fewer passengers arrive in a one-minute period (to 4 decimals).
c. Compute the probability of no arrivals in a -second period (to 4 decimals).
d. Compute the probability of at least one arrival in a -second period (to 4 decimals).
Answer:
Given that:
Airline passengers arrive randomly and independently at the passenger-screening facility at a major international airport. The mean arrival rate is passengers per minute.
The mean arrival rate and no arrival period is not given. So i will give example with mean = 10 and no arrival in a 15 second period.

The Poisson probability formula is 
a) Compute the probability of no arrivals in a one-minute period
probability of no arrivals in a one-minute period is 

b) Compute the probability that three or fewer passengers arrive in a one-minute period








Add the corresponding probabilities



c) Compute the probability of no arrivals in a -second period
The expected number of occurrences in 15 seconds is the mean of 1 minute multiplied by the number of minutes.


Evaluate the formula for k=0 and 


d) Compute the probability of at least one arrival in a -second period
Use the complement rule


