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GATE 2022 ST – Question 28

Stochastic Processes · Poisson and Birth-Death Processes · 1 mark · Numerical answer

Calls arrive as a rate-one Poisson process per minute. Choose five two-minute intervals. Let p be the probability each interval has at most one call. Find e¹⁰p as an integer.

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Correct answer: 243 to 243

Explanation

Each two-minute count is Poisson(2),so P(count≤1)=e⁻²(1+2)=3e⁻². For independent interval counts,p=(3e⁻²)⁵=243e⁻¹⁰,thus **243**. Independence requires nonoverlapping intervals;this is implicit in the official calculation though the source only says the intervals are chosen at random.

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