(See Solution) The arrival of cars to buy fuel at a small all-night garage between midnight and 5 am on a weekday may be reasonably modelled as a non-homogeneous


Question: The arrival of cars to buy fuel at a small all-night garage between midnight and 5 am on a weekday may be reasonably modelled as a non-homogeneous Poisson process with rate

\[\lambda(t)-\frac{5}{12-i t}\]

where \(t\) is the time in hours after midnight.

  1. Show that the expected number of cars arriving by \(t\) hours after midnight is \(\mu(t)-\log \left(1+\frac{5}{12} t\right)\)
  2. Find the probability that two cars arrive between midnight and 3 am.
  3. Find the probability that at most one cur arrives between \(3 \mathrm{am}\) and \(4 \mathrm{am}\).
  4. Show that the simulated times after midnight, \(t_{1}, t_{2}, \ldots\), at which cars arrive may be obtained from the recurrence relation
\[t_{j+1}=\frac{\check t_{j} \mid 12 u}{5(1-u)}\]

where \(u\) is a random observation from the uniform distribution \(U(0,1)\)

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