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15.3 Exercise 21

Avg difficulty 2.5

A service center on an interstate highway experiences customers in a one-hour period as follows:

  • Northbound: Total vehicles: Poisson (200). Twenty percent are trucks.
  • Southbound: Total vehicles: Poisson (180). Twenty five percent are trucks.
  • Each truck has one or two persons, with respective probabilities 0.7 and 0.3.
  • Each car has 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 persons, with probabilities 0.3, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1, 0.1, respectively

Under the usual independence assumptions, let D be the number of persons to be served. Determine E[D]E \left[D\right], Var [D]Var \left[D\right], and the generating function gD(s)g_{D} \left(s\right).

Pfeiffer, Applied Probability, 15.3 Problems on Random Selection, exercise 21

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