Question: ( this is a supply chain problem ) . KU is opening a new urgent care clinic on campus. This clinic is designed to provide

(this is a supply chain problem).KU is opening a new urgent care clinic on campus. This clinic is designed to provide a 24 hour a
day, walk-in, no appointment clinic where members of the KU community can be seen for mild
ailments.
During the overnight hours (11 pm 7 am), KU plans to staff the clinic with a single care team
consisting of a nurse practitioner (NP) and an administrative assistant. The NP can only care for
one patient at a time, and historical data shows that service time with the NP follows an exponential
distribution with an average of 10 minutes. KU expects that 4 patients per hour will visit the clinic
during this time, and arrivals will follow a Poisson process. Answer each of the following
questions for the overnight hours.
The utilization of the clinic is =66.667%
part 1: The waiting room only has space for 2 chairs. Excess patients must wait standing up. What
is the probability that any patients are standing in the waiting area? Please enter your answer
as a value between 0 and 1. If your answer is not an integer, provide at least three decimal
places, e.g.,7.500.
Hint: You need to carefully think about how many patients should be in the clinic before anyone
needs to wait standing up!
Part 2: What is the expected total time (in minutes)(i.e., the total time in queue and in service) that
a patient spends in the clinic in minutes? If your answer is not an integer, provide at least
three decimal places, e.g.,7.500.
Note: please show all final answers with THREE decimal places

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