# GATE2018-2-24

The arrival of customers over fixed time intervals in a bank follow a Poisson distribution with an average of $30$ customers/hour. The probability that the time between successive customer arrival is between $1$ and $3$ minutes is _____ (correct to two decimal places)

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### P(1<=X<=3) = e-0.5 - e-1.5 = 0.6065 - 0.2231 = 0.3834

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Isn't the formula e^(-mean) * (mean^t)/fact(t) for Poisson distribution then why are we using        e^(-mean*t) formula

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