At a used car dealer, cars of a specific type arrive according to a homogeneous Poisson process {N(t), t ≥ 0} with intensity λ. Let {T1, T2, ...} be the corresponding arrival time process. The car arriving at time Tican immediately be resaled by the dealer at price Cily distributed as C. However, if a buyer acquires the car, which arrived at Ti, at time Ti + t, then he only has to pay an amount of
At time t, the dealer is in a position to sell all cars of this type to a customer. What will be the mean total price the car dealer achieves?
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