An exhibition is open for a period of time of $T$ hours. Visitors arrive to it following a Poisson process with parameter $\lambda$ visitors per hour. Visitors stay in the exhibition until it's closing time. Calculate the mean of the total time spent by visitors at the exhibition.
I know it must be solved using conditional probability, but I don't even know where to start. Any help is highly appreciated. Regards.
Edited: missed the word "total".
Expected (or mean) number of visitors per hour is $λ$. The visitors that arrived in the time interval $[t,t+1)$ for $t=0,1,2,\dots T-1$ will stay $T-(t+1)$ for sure plus $\frac12$ hours in mean (this is non-trivial and is derived from the fact that given that there are $λ$ Poisson arrivals in a time period, then they are uniformly distributed over this time period). Hence if we denote with $M$ the total time spent by visitors in the museum, we have that \begin{align}\Bbb E[M]&=\sum_{t=0}^{T-1}\left(T-t-1+\frac12\right)\cdot λ=λ\sum_{t=0}^{T-1}\left(T-\frac12-t\right)=T(T-\frac12)λ-λ\frac{T(T-1)}{2}\\&=\frac{λT^2}{2}\end{align}
Even simpler, as stated in the comments, you can consider the whole interval $[0,T]$ with Poisson arrivals with rate $λT$. Moreover, this question has much to do with conditional (expectation if not probability) since, if we denote with $N(T)$ the random number of Poisson arrivals in the time interval $[0,T]$ and with $T_k$ the time of the $k-$th arrival for $0\le k\le N(T)$, then $$\Bbb E[M]=\Bbb E\left[\sum_{k=1}^{N(T)}(T-T_k)\right]=\Bbb E\left[\Bbb E\left[\sum_{k=1}^{N(T)}(T-T_k) \mid N(T) \right]\right]$$ where $$\Bbb E\left[\sum_{k=1}^{N(T)}T-T_k \mid N(T)=n \right]=nT-\sum_{k=1}^n\Bbb E[T_k]=nT-\sum_{k=1}^n\frac{kT}{n+1}=\frac{nT}{2}$$ Hence $$\Bbb E[M]=\Bbb E\left[\frac{N(T)T}{2}\right]=\frac{T}{2}\Bbb E[N(T)]=\frac{T}{2}λT=\frac{λT^2}{2}$$