Question: ( b ) Dom & Derry Car Wash ( DDCW ) is the only car wash in a small town. A relatively large number of

(b) Dom & Derry Car Wash (DDCW) is the only car wash in a small town. A relatively large
number of people who live in the town are their customers. The customers arrive following a
Poisson distribution at an average of eight car wash customers per hour. Cars wait in a single
waiting line and follow an FCFS queue discipline until they can be washed. Dom and Derry
installed an automatic car washer, which takes a constant time of six minutes per car to wash.
(b-1) How many car wash customer/s would they expect to serve at DDCW on average?
(b-2) What is the average time in minutes a car wash customer will spend waiting to be served?
 (b) Dom & Derry Car Wash (DDCW) is the only car

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