What is the probability that a retweet occurs less than 6 minutes after you send your tweet? b. How many retweets would you expect after 20 hours? c. What is the probability of more than four retweets in an hour after your tweet?

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7. Human behavior can sometimes be modeled as a Poisson process. Suppose when you send a tweet
in Twitter, the retweets follow a Poisson process, and the mean time between retweets is 5 minutes.
a. What is the probability that a retweet occurs less than 6 minutes after you send your tweet?
b. How many retweets would you expect after 20 hours?
c. What is the probability of more than four retweets in an hour after your tweet? 

 

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