Bridgewater State University bookstore is a small facility that sells books and supplies. It has one...

  

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Bridgewater State University bookstore is a small facility that sells books and supplies. It has one checkout counter where one employee operates the cash register. The combination of the cash paginitor and the operator is the server (or service facility) in this waiting line system; the students who line up at the counter to pay for their selections form the waiting line. Students are at a rate of 24 per hour according to a Poisson distribution (24), and service times are exponentially distributed, with a mean rate of 30 customers per hour (30) The bookstom manager is considering hining an extra employee if there is a big chance of having 5 customers in the queuing system As an Operations Management expert providing consulting, would you advise hiring that extra employee? In other words, you have to give the probability of having 5 customers in the quing system Probability that no customers are in waiting ane Po-(1-M Probability that in customers are in waiting line Pn u Po Enter the "percentage" mounded to two decimals (Le. not the "fraction"). For example for 25.678%, you would enter 25.68, not 0.2568. Bridgewater State University bookstore is a small facility that sells books and supplies. It has one checkout counter where one employee operates the cash register. The combination of the cash paginitor and the operator is the server (or service facility) in this waiting line system; the students who line up at the counter to pay for their selections form the waiting line. Students are at a rate of 24 per hour according to a Poisson distribution (24), and service times are exponentially distributed, with a mean rate of 30 customers per hour (30) The bookstom manager is considering hining an extra employee if there is a big chance of having 5 customers in the queuing system As an Operations Management expert providing consulting, would you advise hiring that extra employee? In other words, you have to give the probability of having 5 customers in the quing system Probability that no customers are in waiting ane Po-(1-M Probability that in customers are in waiting line Pn u Po Enter the "percentage" mounded to two decimals (Le. not the "fraction"). For example for 25.678%, you would enter 25.68, not 0.2568.

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