06.Bus on a Ten-Minute Loop
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A bus runs a circuit that takes exactly 10 minutes, starting the next loop the moment it finishes one. You arrive at the stop at a moment chosen uniformly at random. What is your expected waiting time in minutes?
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Your arrival lands uniformly inside a fixed-length gap between buses.
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