Question: 5 . You wait at the post office. There are two queues. In each queue a clerk serves customers, and the service time is exponentially

5. You wait at the post office. There are two queues. In each queue a clerk serves customers, and the service time is exponentially distributed (and independent for the various customers). The first queue has one customer waiting (i.e. being in service) before you, and the clerk serves customers at rate 1 per hour. The second has two
customers waiting (one being in service, and a second not waiting for the first to finish), and the clerk serves customers at rate 3 per hour. As soon as one queue is free you will be served. Note that the second customer in queue 2 will not switch queue and will be served by the clerk of queue 2.
Question (a) What is the probability that you will be served by the clerk in the first queue?
Question (b) What is the probability that you will start receiving service within the next 30 minutes (half an hour)?
Question (c) What is the expected time at which you will leave the post office after being served?
 5. You wait at the post office. There are two queues.

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