Question: Consider a waiting line system with the arrival rate being 1 0 customers per hour and the service on a customer is 1 2 minutes

Consider a waiting line system with the arrival rate being 10 customers per hour and the service on a customer is 12 minutes on average. Assume that both inter-arrival time and service time follow exponential distribution.
(a) Whats the arrival rate and service rate (customers per hour)?[5 pts]
(b) What is the minimum number of servers that are required to ensure the customers average waiting time in queue is no more than 5 minutes? [5 pts]
(c) What is the minimum number of servers that are required to ensure the average number of people in the system is no more than 4?[5 pts]

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