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poisson distribution

GATE Mechanical Engineering · Probability - Poisson Distribution · 2014-2024

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2024 Q35

A queueing system has one single server workstation that admits an infinitely long queue. The rate of arrival of jobs to the queueing system follows the Poisson distribution with a...

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2023 Q11

A machine produces a defective component with a probability of 0.015. The number of defective components in a packed box containing 200 components produced by the machine follows a...

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2023 PYQ

A machine produces a defective component with a probability of 0.015. The number of defective components in a packed box containing 200 components produced by the machine follows a...

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2022 PYQ

Let a random variable X follow Poisson distribution such that Prob(X = 1) = Prob(X = 2). The value of Prob(X = 3) is __________ (round off to 2 decimal places).

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2021 Q33

Customers arrive at a shop according to the Poisson distribution with a mean of 10 customers/hour. The manager notes that no customer arrives for the first 3 minutes after the shop...

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2021 Q42

Consider a single machine workstation to which jobs arrive according to a Poisson distribution with a mean arrival rate of 12 jobs/hour. The process time of the workstation is expo...

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2018 Q24

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 cu...

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2016 PYQ

Consider a Poisson distribution for the tossing of a biased coin. The mean for this distribution is $$\mu $$. The standard deviation for this distribution is given by

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2014 PYQ

The number of accidents occurring in a plant in a month follows Poisson distribution with mean as $$5.2.$$ The probability of occurrence of less than $$2$$ accidents in the plant d...

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2014 PYQ

The jobs arrive at a facility, for service, in a random manner. The probability distribution of number of arrivals of jobs in a fixed time interval is

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