Question: 5 . Consider an espresso stand with a single barista. Customers arrive to the stand at the rate of 2 8 per hour on average.

5. Consider an espresso stand with a single barista. Customers arrive to the stand at the rate of 28 per hour on average. The corresponding coefficient of variation of 1(CV 1) Service times are exponentially distributed (i.e. the corresponding coefficient of variation of 1) with a service rate of 35 customers per hour. The manager would like to add few more baristas to decrease the total flow time of a customer in the system (waiting + service) below 2 minutes (0.03333 hrs). What is the minimum number of baristas (in total) that will ensure the service goal of less than 2 minutes, on average?
Select one:
a.4
b.2 Chat
c.3 other
d.1

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