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Part CCSIR NET December 2023mm1-formulas

Mm1 formulas

Consider an M/M/1 queue with arrival rate per hour and service rate per hour. Let N(t) be the number of customers in the system at time t, and the time a customer spends in the queue and in the system. Which of the following statements are true?

  1. A. P(N(t) = 1) = 2/9
  2. B.
  3. C.
  4. D.

You have the answer. Trap Analysis is why the other three were written.

Not a worked solution repeated four times — the specific reasoning error each wrong option was built to reward, and why this one tests execution slip.

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50 are analysed free — try those first.

The trap it tests

Execution slip

The idea was right. The computation was not.

Drill statements like this

Related counterexample: An irreducible chain with a stationary distribution converges to it

More on this topic

The chapter behind this: Markov chains: classification and stationary behaviour — free to read

From Limit Theorems and Markov ChainsMarkov chains: classification of states, stationary distributions

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