Multiple choice

The jobs arrive at a facility, for service, in a random manner. The probability distribution of number of arrivals of jobs in a fixed time interval is

  1. Normal

  2. Poisson

  3. Erlang

  4. Beta

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

When jobs are coming in random manner then number of arrivals of jobs in a fixed time interval will follow poisson probability distribution. Service time will follow exponential distribution.