Suppose that the number of inquiries arriving at a certain interactive system follows a Poisson distribution with arrival rate of 12 inquiries per minute. Find the probability of 10 inquiries arriving a) in a 1-minute interval; b) in a 3-minute interval. c) What is the expectation and the variance of the number of arrivals during each of these intervals?
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