Question: Can you please design a M/M/s and a M/M/s/K queue? Thank you. You are a systems design and operations engineer for Buffalo Coronavirus Drive-Through Testing
Can you please design a M/M/s and a M/M/s/K queue? Thank you.

You are a systems design and operations engineer for Buffalo Coronavirus Drive-Through Testing Site. For a particular unit time, the number of patients that visit the testing site is expected to be 212. Each medical staff is expected to be able to handle 89 patients per unit time. The value of testing each patient is estimated at $5 and the cost of each medical staff is expected to be $100 per unit time. Overall cost of time value (includes gas, emissions, time value of patients) is estimated at $1 per unit time per patient. (1) Design an M/M/s queue (i.e., determine how many servers are needed) and explain why. (2) Design an M/M/s/K queue (i.e., determine s and K) and explain why. Searching for all possibles and K combinations may not be feasible. Try to strategically search for some combinations of these
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