Exponentially distributed inter-arrival rate

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Could someone clarify this question?

Assume that inter-arrival times of student arriving at the canteen are exponentially distributed with a mean of $\dfrac13$.

a) Find the probability that no students arrive during a $20$ minutes interval.

b) Find the probability that more than two students arrive during the server's ten-minute break.

For part (a), how would I find the the probability of $x=0$ students when exponential distribution only works for $x$ less or equal to a number? Do I need to use Poisson?

For part (b) how would I go about using the break time? It doesn't make sense to me.