Answer to Question #37404 in Statistics and Probability for Sujata Roy

Question

There are n stations in a slotted LAN. Each station attempts to transmit with a probability p in each time slot. What is the probability that only one station transmits in a given time slot?

a) np(1-p)^(n-1)
b)(1-p)^(n-1)
c)p(1-p)^(n-1)
d)1-(1-p)^(n-1)