A bank manager is concerned with the amount of time it takes customers to complete their banking
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A bank manager is concerned with the amount of time it takes customers to complete their banking business during the afternoons, when two tellers are normally on duty. The manager has periodically counted the number of customers in the waiting line and the number of customers being served at the counter over a typical afternoon. The counts are given in the following table. The manager has also counted the total number of customers arriving and has calculated that, on average, 15 customers arrive per hour.
Observation | In Waiting | At Counter | Observation | In Waiting | At Counter |
1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 |
3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 |
4 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 2 |
5 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 2 |
- Task
- Estimate the average time a customer spends waiting in line.
- Estimate the average time customers must spend in the bank to complete their banking business.
- Which of these throughput times do you think the bank manager will be most interested in?
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Smith and Roberson Business Law
ISBN: 978-0538473637
15th Edition
Authors: Richard A. Mann, Barry S. Roberts
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