Explanation of a Poisson Problem

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This problem is in a multiple choice question and the teacher gave us the answer but he didn't explain how. Can anyone show me the steps?

This is the problem:
Consider a Poisson process with a rate of 18 events per hour. What is the probability that the 10th event occurs not later than 20 minutes after the eighth?

The answer is 0.983

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Poisson process is memoryless, so it is simply asking the chances of at least 2 events in a 20 minute period. Can you take it from there?