Question: Consider a small pharmacy where one pharmacist, one administrative assistant and one cashier work. On average, 8 0 % of the customers come to fill

Consider a small pharmacy where one pharmacist, one administrative assistant and one cashier work.
On average, 80% of the customers come to fill prescriptions and 20% purchase only over the counter (OTC) medication.
Customers who come in to fill a prescription drop off their script with the cashier and each brings only one script. This step takes on average 5 minutes per customer.
The pharmacist fills all prescriptions and this step takes on average 15 minutes per customer. After spending 15 minutes on a script, the pharmacist realizes that 20% of the scripts are problematic and cannot be filled as is. Those scripts are routed to the administrative assistant for problem resolution.
The administrative assistant, on average, spends 40 minutes resolving an issue on a script. Assume that all problems are eventually resolved. Those scripts are routed back to the pharmacist to be filled and this step takes 10 minutes.
All customers pay the cashier. Check-out is on average 3 minutes for an OTC customer and 6 minutes for a customer who came in to fill a script.

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