Question: Simulate a single provider urgent care facility in Simio. The facility has a waiting room and a single examination room. Patients arrive according to a

Simulate a single provider urgent care facility in Simio. The facility has a waiting room and a single examination room. Patients arrive according to a Poisson distribution at a rate of 1.75 per hour. Upon arriving to the facility, the patients are first checked in by a frontline worker and then seen by a provider. The time that it takes a patient to be checked in follows a Triangular distribution with a min of 2.5 min, mode of 10 min, and max of 13min. After being checked in, the patient then waits to be seen by a provider. The amount of time spent by a provider with a patient follows a Triangular distribution with a min of 12 min, mode of 25 min, and a max of 35 min. Simulate this urgent care facility for 5 replication of 500 hours each. a. Upload your Simio file as an attachment b. What is the expected amount of time that an arriving patient will spend at the urgent care clinic? What would the expected wait time in queue be before the patient is seen by the provider?

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