Question: Twenty - four customers arrive every hour ( Poisson distributed ) at Andy Johnson s food truck when it parks outside the Colfax courthouse from

Twenty-four customers arrive every hour (Poisson distributed) at Andy Johnsons food truck
when it parks outside the Colfax courthouse from 11:002:00 on weekdays. It takes Andy a
mean time of 2 minutes to fill each order (exponentially distributed).
(a) What is the average waiting time (in minutes)?
(b) If Andys wife joins as a second server with the same processing time (still one line),
what is the new average waiting time (in minutes)?
(c) If instead Andys wife uses her own truck and customers would be evenly split between
the two trucks, what would be the average waiting time (in minutes)?

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