Question: Question 12) At Maxine's Clifton store, which is its largest, three employee servers take care of customers. The employees are all identically trained and equally

Question 12)

At Maxine's Clifton store, which is its largest, three employee servers take care of customers. The employees are all identically trained and equally capable. The store is large enough that it has no limit on the number of customers who can wait in line. There, each server can take care of 15 customers per hour on average, and a new customer shows up about every 2 minutes (students love subs).

On average, how long should customers expect to wait before being served?

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About 2 minutes

About 5 minutes

About 9 minutes

About 13 minutes

Impossible to tell from this information

Question 17)

You have a multi-server system (M/M/c) that produces an average time in the system for customers of 8 minutes. The service rate is 20 customers per hour. What is the average time a customer spends in the queue?

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8 minutes

3 minutes

5 minutes

11 minutes

Impossible to tell from this information

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