Question: Please provide excel formulas as well for this question: A local movie theater, Cinemax Theaters, is considering changing its ticketing system. In the current system,

Please provide excel formulas as well for this question: A local movie theater, Cinemax Theaters, is considering changing its ticketing system. In the current system, customers form separate lines for five ticket counters. The manager is contemplating implementing a single-line system with multiple servers, where customers wait in one line and proceed to the next available counter. If the average service time is 3 minutes per customer, and the average number of arrivals per hour is 80 customers, determine which system results in the lowest customer waiting time (the average time a customer spends waiting in the queue).
Hint: The current system consists of 5 single-server queues (and arrivals randomly (and equally) will be divided between the queues), but the proposed system is a multiple-server queue with 5 servers.
What to submit: The final submission must be ONE Excel (or Word or PDF) file with answers to all the questions (one sheet per question).

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