4. A website receives hits at a rate of 300 per hour.
- State a distribution that is suitable to model the number of hits obtained during a 1 minute interval.
- State two reasons for your answer to part (a).
Find the probability of
- 10 hits in a given minute,
- at least 15 hits in 2 minutes.
The website will go down if there are more than 70 hits in 10 minutes.
- Using a suitable approximation, find the probability that the website will go down in a particular 10 minute interval.