4. Jane and Sally make phone calls whose lengths are independent and identically distributed exponential random variables with mean 3 minutes. Assuming the calls begin at the same time, what is the expected time until both are completed?
here let parameter of 1st and 2nd phone calls are 1 and 2
from above 1 =2 =1/3
therefore expected time until both are completed =1/1+1/2-1/(1+2) =1/(1/3)+1/(1/3)-1/(3+3) =3+3-3/2 =4.5 minutes
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