Tom is bird watching in the arboretum. The times when he sights a meadowlark occur in accordance with a Poisson process with parameter ๐. The times when he sights a sparrow occur as a Poisson process with parameter ๐. Assume that meadowlark and sparrow sightings are independent.
(a) Find the probability that a meadowlark is seen first.(b) Find the probability the one bird is seen by time t=1.(c) Find the probability that one sparrow and two meadowlarks are seen by time t=2.
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