Lisa is at a bus stop. The times between successive bus arrivals are independent and identically...

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Lisa is at a bus stop. The times between successive bus arrivalsare independent and identically distributed exponential randomvariables with mean 3 minutes. While lisa is waiting, Mindy callsto say she will arrive in exactly 3 minutes. Lisa will wait forMindy and they will ride a bus together. Calculate the probabilitythat Lisa will miss the first and both Lisa and Mindy will catchthe second bus.

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