John is waiting for his date Mary at a street corner. People are passing by at a

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John is waiting for his date Mary at a street corner. People are passing by at a Poisson rate of λ per minute. Suppose that John’s waiting time is uniformly distributed on the interval from a to a+b minutes (say, from 5 to 35 minutes). Find the expected value and variance of the number of people who will pass by during the time John will be waiting.

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