Poisson rate and uniform distributions

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Question : Customers arrive at a bank at a Poisson rate $\lambda$. Suppose that we already know that exactly two customers arrive during the first hour.

What is the expected arrival time of the first customer ?

I think that the two customers are uniformly dist on $(0,1)$ so the ans should be 20 mins?
Since there is a conditional, I think the distribution changes and is not Poisson anymore.

Best Answer

Your reasoning is correct.

The joint conditional distribution for the arrival times in the interval, under the condition that there are exactly two, is that for the order statistics for two identical and independent uniformly distributed samples over the interval.

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