Question: Consider a fast food joint somewhat like Chipotle. There are three stages for an arriving cutomer: waiting in line, building the order and checking out.

Consider a fast food joint somewhat like

Consider a fast food joint somewhat like Chipotle. There are three stages for an arriving cutomer: waiting in line, building the order and checking out. This is what we know about its state at a certain hour, where it is in a steady state. There are on average 10 customers waiting in the waiting line; on average it takes 11 minutes to build an order, and it takes 5 minutes to checkout at the cash register. Customers are arriving at the rate of 19/hr. Round your answers to TWO places of decimal. (Hint: In steady state the arrival rate and the exit rate is the same for all processes) Answer the following: (1) On average cusomers wait for 1.9 minutes in the waiting line. (2) On average there are 1.7 customers in process of building order. (3) On average there are 4 at the cash register

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