Customers approach Florence’s Fortune Telling booth at a rate of 8 people/ hour. (Arrival rate follows a Poisson distribution.) Customers wait, on average 20 minutes to have their fortunes told by Florence. On average, how many people are waiting in line? (Round to the nearest hundredth. Because this is an average, you can have a fraction of a person.)

Customers approach Florence’s Fortune Telling booth at a rate of 8 people/ hour. (Arrival rate follows a Poisson distribution.) Customers wait, on average 20 minutes to have their fortunes told by Florence. On average, how many people are waiting in line? (Round to the nearest hundredth. Because this is an average, you can have a fraction of a person.)

Practical Management Science

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Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

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Chapter12: Queueing Models

Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models

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