Question: Consider a simple system which has two servers and a single FIFO queue. Customers arrive at a rate of 6 0 per hour. A customer

Consider a simple system which has two servers and a single FIFO queue. Customers arrive at a rate of 60 per hour. A customer
will choose the first available server. Both servers work at approximately the same distribution, Uniform [1,2] minutes. Using the
attached handout, perform a hand simulation for the first 10 minutes. Assume the first arrival is at time 0. Draw the plot for the
number of busy servers, B(t), the plot for the number of customers waiting in the queue, Q(t) and the plot for the work-in-process
in the system, WIP(t). All inter-arrival times and service times are provided with the following table for the chart. Also, record final
statistics (at time 10) for the average number of busy servers, the server utilization, the average queue size, and the average time
waiting in the queue. You can use Lesson_3_Simulation by Hand.xlsx sheet for your answer.
Table 1: Interarrival time and service times of the customers
Customer 12345678910...
Interarrival times 0.61.20.60.44.10.715.53.11.71.0...
Service Time 1.62.02.31.51.41.31.01.31.31.4...
a) Average time in Q per part
b) Server Utilization =
c) Average # waiting in Q =
d) Average Waiting time in queue =
e) Avg WIP =
f) Avg Total Time =

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