Regular (not junk) emails arrive at your inbox according to a Poisson process with rate r; and junk emails arrive at your inbox according to an independent Poisson process with rate j. Assume both processes have been going on forever. Fix a time t to be 8 o'clock.
1. What is the expected length of the interval that t belongs to? That is, find the expected length of the interval from the last event before until the first event after t. Here, an event refers to the arrival of either kind of emails.
2. What is the probability that t belongs to an RR interval? (That is, the first event before, as well as the first event after time t, are both regular non-junk emails.)
3. What is the probability that between t and t+1, that exactly 2 emails, a regular email followed by a junk email, arrive?
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Certainly! I can help you with these questions. Let's tackle them one by one:
1. To find the expected length of the interval that t belongs to, we need to determine the time between two consecutive events in the process. In this case, the events can be either regular emails or junk emails. Since they are both Poisson processes, the inter-arrival times follow exponential distributions.
The expected length of the interval is the mean of the exponential distribution, which is equal to 1 divided by the rate parameter. In this case, the regular email process has a rate of r, so the expected length for regular emails is 1/r. Similarly, the junk email process has a rate of j, so the expected length for junk emails is 1/j.
Now, to find the expected length of the interval that t belongs to, we need to consider both regular and junk emails. Since these processes are independent, we can add their expected lengths together:
Expected length = 1/r + 1/j
2. To find the probability that t belongs to an RR interval (where both the first event before and the first event after time t are regular emails), we need to consider the distribution of regular emails only.
The probability of the first event before t being a regular email is given by the exponential distribution with rate r, and the probability of the first event after t being a regular email is also given by the exponential distribution with rate r.
Since these events are independent, we can multiply these probabilities together:
Probability of RR interval = (1/r) * (1/r) = 1/r^2
3. To find the probability that exactly 2 emails (a regular email followed by a junk email) arrive between t and t+1, we need to consider two arrival processes: regular emails and junk emails.
First, let's consider the regular email process. The probability of having one regular email in the interval between t and t+1 is given by the exponential distribution with rate r. Now, for the junk email process, the probability of having one junk email in the same interval is given by the exponential distribution with rate j.
Since these events are independent, we can multiply these probabilities together to find the probability of exactly one regular email and one junk email in the interval:
Probability of one regular email and one junk email = (1/r) * (1/j)
Now, we need to consider the order of these events. The probability that the regular email arrives before the junk email in this interval is 1/2, as there are two possible orderings (regular-junk or junk-regular) and they are equally likely.
Therefore, the probability of exactly 2 emails (a regular email followed by a junk email) arriving in the interval between t and t+1 is:
Probability = (1/2) * (1/r) * (1/j)
I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any further questions.