Question: A shipping company operates a docking facility for cargoes. We obtain the following table. The time unit is hour. Suppose that the cost of each

A shipping company operates a docking facility for cargoes. We obtain the following table. The time unit is hour. Suppose that the cost of each team is $100 per hour and cost of waiting per cargo per hour is $200. If you use 5 servers (5 teams of workers), how much is the total operational cost of the system per hour? (Consider both labor cost and waiting cost.)

A shipping company operates a docking facility

A

$450

B

$526

C

$504

D

$508

E

$660

F

No answer above is correct

lambda, Arrival rate mu, Service rate n, Number of servers 3 1.2 1 3 1.2 2 3 1.2 3 3 1.2 4 3 1.2 5 1.2 6 Utilization PO), probability{system is empty} Lg, expected queue length L, expected number in system Wq, expected time in queue 0.83 0.04 3.51 6.01 1.17 2.00 0.70 0.63 0.07 0.53 3.03 0.18 1.01 0.32 0.50 0.08 0.13 2.63 0.04 0.88 0.13 0.42 0.08 0.03 2.53 0.01 0.84 0.05 Probability that a customer waits

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