Practical Management Science
Practical Management Science
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781337406659
Author: WINSTON, Wayne L.
Publisher: Cengage,
Bartleby Related Questions Icon

Related questions

bartleby

Concept explainers

Question
100%

A small town with one hospital has 4 ambulances to supply ambulance service. Requests for ambulances during nonholiday weekends average 0.70 per hour and tend to be Poisson-distributed. Travel and assistance time averages 2.50 hours per call and follows an exponential distribution Use Table 1.
 
a. Find system utilization. (Round your answer to the nearest whole percent. Omit the "%" sign in your response.)
 

System utilization            %
 
b. Find the average number of customers waiting. (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)
 

Average number of customers           
 
c. Find the average time customers wait for an ambulance. (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)
 

Average time            hour
 
d. Find the probability that all ambulances will be busy when a call comes in. (Round intermediate calculations to 3 decimal places and final answer to 2 decimal places.)
 

Probability           

Expert Solution
Check Mark
Knowledge Booster
Background pattern image
Operations Management
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, operations-management and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.
Similar questions
SEE MORE QUESTIONS
Recommended textbooks for you
Text book image
Practical Management Science
Operations Management
ISBN:9781337406659
Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.
Publisher:Cengage,
Text book image
Operations Management
Operations Management
ISBN:9781259667473
Author:William J Stevenson
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Education
Text book image
Operations and Supply Chain Management (Mcgraw-hi...
Operations Management
ISBN:9781259666100
Author:F. Robert Jacobs, Richard B Chase
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Education
Text book image
Business in Action
Operations Management
ISBN:9780135198100
Author:BOVEE
Publisher:PEARSON CO
Text book image
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
Operations Management
ISBN:9781285869681
Author:Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero, James L. Patterson
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Text book image
Production and Operations Analysis, Seventh Editi...
Operations Management
ISBN:9781478623069
Author:Steven Nahmias, Tava Lennon Olsen
Publisher:Waveland Press, Inc.