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Problem 190 of 333MediumProbabilityP190
Waiting to see both a bus and a train
Buses arrive as a Poisson process with rate 3 per hour and trains arrive independently as a Poisson process with rate 2 per hour. Starting now, what is the expected time until you have seen at least one bus and at least one train?
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