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In a mine bench, the shovel loading time follows exponential distribution with a mean loading time of 5 min per dumper. The arrival rate of dumpers that are identical in capacity, follows Poisson distribution with a mean arrival rate of 8 per hour. The probability that the shovel remains idle is __________ (round off to 2 decimal places).

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GATE MN 2020 · Paper 1

Mining Engineering · Original paper archive

Section
Mining Engineering
Question type
Numerical answer (NAT)
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1 mark

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