Problem 3 The university runs two bus lines on campus: red and green.

The red line

serves north campus, and the green line serves south campus with a transfer station linking
two lines. Green buses arrive randomly (exponential inter-arrival time) at the transfer
station with the average inter-arrival time of 10 minutes. Red buses also arrive randomly,
but with the average inter-arrival time of 7 minutes.
1. Generate 1,000,000 inter-arrival time values for the red bus arriving at the transfer
station according to the exponential distribution. With these inter-arrival time
values, one is able to find at which time points the red bus arrive on the transfer
station. For example, let the clock start at 1:00pm. If the first inter-arrival time
value to be generated is 2 minutes, then the red bus will arrive at 1:02pm for the
first time. If the second inter-arrival time is 6 minutes, then the red bus will arrive
at 1:08pm for the second time, and so on.
2. Repeat the previous step again for the green bus.
3. Assume that every time a green bus arrives, a student takes off and wait for the
next red bus to get on. Please find how long this student has to wait on average.
How is it close to 7 minutes?
4. If we assume that the running of the red bus is strictly scheduled so that the red
bus arrives at the transfer station once every 7 minutes (i.e., the inter-arrival time
is always 7 minutes), then how long does this student have to wait on average? In
this scenario, we still assume that the green bus arrives randomly.
5. Considering the 1,000,000 time points generated in Step 1 on which green buses
arrive, we count the number of green bus arrivals in every one hour. Plot the
histogram of these numbers and then compare it with the Poisson density function
(setting = 6).