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Q125Section III (Statistics)125 of 190

M/M/1 — probability the server is idle

A canteen has a single cash counter. A customer has to buy coupons from the cash counter before getting the food items. Customers arrive at the counter according to a Poisson process with rate of 2 per 5 minutes. It takes 1.5 minutes on average to buy coupons. What is the long-run probability that the cash counter is free?

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