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Customers arrive at Rich Dunn's Styling Shop at a rate of 2 per hour, distributed in a Poisson fashion. Service times follow a negative exponential distribution, and Rich can perform an average of 6 haircuts per hour.
a) The average number of customers waiting for haircuts = ?
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customers (round your response to two decimal places).b) The average number of customers in the shop = ?
customers (round your response to two decimal places).
customers (round your response to two decimal places).
c) The average time a customer waits until it is his or her turn = ?
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minutes (round your response to two decimal places).Expert Solution
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The arrival rate is 2 per hour and the service rate is 6 per hour,
I would determine the answers for each question using the formulas, the detailed calculations are shown below,
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d) The average time a customer spends in the shop = ?
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