Question: You are a systems design and operations engineer for a Drive-Through Testing Site. On a daily bases, the exspeccted number of patients that visit the

You are a systems design and operations engineer for a Drive-Through Testing Site. On a daily bases, the exspeccted number of patients that visit the testing site is 280. Each medical sta is expected to be able to handle 46 per day. The value of testing each patient is estimated at $5 and the cost of each medical sta is expected to be $100 per day. Overall cost of time value is estimated at $1 per hour.

(1) Design an M/M/s queue (i.e., determine how many servers are needed) and explain why.

(2) Design an M/M/s/K queue (i.e., determine s and K) and explain why.

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