Customers enter the waiting line at a cafeteria on a first-come, first-served basis. The arrival rate follows

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Customers enter the waiting line at a cafeteria on a first-come, first-served basis. The arrival rate follows a Poisson distribution, and service times follow an exponential distribution. If the average number of arrivals is 6 per minute and the average service rate of a single server is 10 per minute, what is the average number of customers in the system?

a. 0.6

b. 0.9

c. 1.5

d. 0.25

e. none of the above

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Quantitative Analysis For Management

ISBN: 213168

12th Edition

Authors: Barry Render ,Ralph M. Stair ,Michael E. Hanna

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