T₁ is exponential of rate 3, mean 1/3. Conditional on N(t)=4, the four arrival times are the ordered values of four iid uniforms on (0,t), whose minimum has mean t/5. Thus the conditional means are 2/5 and 3/5 respectively. **B,D**.
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