Question: A drive - thru has one window for payment and one window for food delivery. Assume one vehicle leaves the payment window and arrives at

A drive-thru has one window for payment and one window for food delivery. Assume one vehicle leaves the payment window and arrives at the delivery window. A second vehicle in line behind the first vehicle arrives to the payment window at the same time. You want to simulate the time it takes for each vehicle to be processed at its respective window.
The processing time for the payment window follows a triangular distribution with a minimum of 20 seconds, a most likely of 50 seconds, and a maximum of 120 seconds. The processing time for the delivery window follows a triangular distribution with a minimum of 55 seconds, a most likely of 140 seconds, and a maximum of 240 seconds (i.e.,4 minutes)
The computer generates a uniform random number 0.796 for the second vehicle (at the payment window) and a uniform random number 0.228 for the first vehicle (at the delivery window).
Based on these uniform random numbers, which process finishes first and how long (in seconds) does it take that process to finish?

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