Question: 1 Staffing with the M M ? s Queue MoNeese is determining the staffing level for their credit union located within the university, and has

1 Staffing with the MM?s Queue
MoNeese is determining the staffing level for their credit union located within the university, and
has recently hired two tellers (servers). The beginning of the fall semester is their busiest time, with
incoming freshmen and transfer students opening accounts. On average, it takes a teller E[T]=10
minutes to successfully open an account and the average arrival rate has been =6 per hour. As
always, we use the exponential distribution as a reasonable approximation for both the interarrival
and service times. After meeting with McNeese's upper-administration, the manager of the credit
union is considering two possible scenarios for the service layout:
Scenario 1: two MM?1(dedicated) queues that each serve 2 arrivals
Scenario 2: one MM?2(pooled) queue that serves all arrivals
A queuing analysis was conducted on each scenario, and the results are as follows:
Derive the average time (minutes) spent in the system for Scenario 1.
Now calculate the average time in line (minutes) for Scenario 2. Comparing to question
one, what did you find?
Considering Scenario 2, what is the average time (minutes) spent in the system?
(a)5 minutes
(b)9 minutes
(c)11 minutes
(d)14 minutes
 1 Staffing with the MM?s Queue MoNeese is determining the staffing

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