The new spaceport has a single runway for launching space planes. Space airlines (Virgin Atlantic, for example)
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The new spaceport has a single runway for launching space planes. Space airlines (Virgin Atlantic, for example) plan to launch 5 flights per hour. The average time to launch each ship is 9.2 minutes. The spaceport will operate for 11 hours per day.
a) What is the average number of spacecraft waiting to take off?
b) If each minute you wait for a space plane costs $1K, what is the cost of waiting per space plane?
c) How busy is the track?
d) What is the probability of having 1 or more ships waiting?
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