Question: Joan has a small design and tailoring shop making custom outfits for women. She has three employees. Each employee only begins working on a dress

Joan has a small design and tailoring shop making custom outfits for women. She has three employees. Each employee only begins working on a dress when a customer order has been received and then she makes the dress from beginning to end. The average production time of a dress is 2.3 days, with a standard deviation of 2.7 days. Historically, Joan has been receiving orders with interarrival times of one day on average. The interarrival times of orders have a coefficient of variation of one.
(Carry at least 4 decimal places in all intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to 2 decimal places.)
What is the expected waiting time, in days, between when an order is received and when production begins on the dress? Question 10 options:
A)
4.75
B)
1.00
C)
3.50
D)
2.40

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