Question: Consider a Poisson queue with random arrivals at the rate of 12 customers per hour and the following steady-state probabilities: p 0 = 1/3, p

Consider a Poisson queue with random arrivals at the rate of 12 customers per hour and the following steady-state probabilities: p0= 1/3, p1= 1/2, p2= 1/6, and pn= 0 for n = 3,4,5, ... . What is the mean (or effective) arrival rate in customers per hour for this queuing system?

The answer is not 12!!!

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