Question: Part 1 Students wait in line at the registrar's window to seek assistance with their class schedules. It takes the registrar an average of 3

Part 1
Students wait in line at the registrar's window to seek assistance with their class schedules. It takes the registrar an average of 3.0 minutes to answer a student's questions at the window. Students arrive at the registrar's window at a rate of 13 per hour. The time to answer a student's questions is the time it takes the server to interact with the customer (the service time).
1. What is the registrar's service rate?
2. How many minutes per hour does the registrar have to handle other tasks (not answering student questions)?
3. What is the average time a student spends at the window (in line or being served by the registrar)?
4. The registrar wants the average time a student must spend in the system to be no more than 7.5 minutes. To achieve this, the registrar's service rate must be at least students/hour. Assume the arrival rate does not change.
Part 2
A single worker is able to serve 10 customers per hour at a help desk. An average of 6 customers arrive at the desk each hour to be served.
5. What is the average number of customers at the desk (in line or being served)?
6. April can observe the desk from across the hall. When April looks over at the desk, what is the probability she will see either 1 or 2 customers there (in line or being served)?
7. What is the average time a customer spends waiting in line?
8. What is the probability it will take longer than 8 minutes to serve a customer?
9. What is the probability more than 1 customer will arrive at the desk in the next hour? Remember to start counting significant digits after zeros (0.0001234 is four significant digits).
10. Auggie is going to the desk. What is the probability he will find more than 1 customer waiting in line?
Hints: a) A customer approaching a waiting line system is not a part of that system.
b) If one customer is waiting in line, then there are two customers in the system (the other customer is currently being served).
Part 1 Students wait in line at the registrar's

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