GATE CE · 2017 · CE
Question 25: Probability and Statistics
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Question 25
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Vehicles arriving at an intersection from one of the approach roads follow the Poisson distribution. The mean rate of arrival is 900 vehicles per hour. If a gap is defined as the time difference between two successive vehicle arrivals (with vehicles assumed to be points), the probability (up to four decimal places) that the gap is greater than 8 seconds is ________.
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GATE CE 2017 · Paper 1
Civil Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Civil Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
- Marks
- 1 mark
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