Question: In a system with multiple stages, where one stage is the bottleneck, the arrival rate (e.g., customers per hour) increases by 10%, keeping everything else

In a system with multiple stages, where one stage is the bottleneck, the arrival rate (e.g., customers per hour) increases by 10%, keeping everything else the same. The stage that was the bottleneck:
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Will definitely have a utilization higher than 100%
Is then by definition still the bottleneck
Also increases its capacity by 10%
Can have shifted to another stage, depending on the capacities

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