Question: * I am stuck on Part C * Another Answerer said it was $ 2 2 . 5 0 but it came back incorrect. Janson's
I am stuck on Part C Another Answerer said it was $ but it came back incorrect. Janson's Department Store in Stark, Ohio, maintains a successful catalog sales department in which a clerk takes orders by telephone. If the clerk is occupied on one line, incoming
phone calls to the catalog department are answered automatically by a recording machine and asked to wait. As soon as the clerk is free, the party who has waited the longest is
transferred and serviced first. Calls come in at a rate of about per hour. The clerk can take an order in an average of minutes. Calls tend to follow a Poisson distribution, and
service times tend to be negative exponential.
The cost of the clerk is $ per hour, but because of lost goodwill and sales, Janson's loses about $ per hour of customer time spent waiting for the clerk to take an order.
a The average time that catalog customers must wait before their calls are transferred to the order clerk minutes round your response to two decimal places
b The average number of callers waiting to place an order
callers round your response to two decimal places
The present total cost per hour service cost waiting cost$ per hour round your response to two decimal places
c Janson's is considering adding a second clerk to take calls. The store's cost would be the same $ per hour. The total cost service cost waiting cost $ per hour round
your response to two decimal places
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