The ticket booth on the Tech campus is operated by one person, who is selling tickets for the annual Tech versus State football game on Saturday. The ticket seller can serve an average of 2 minutes per customer , on average, 21 customers arrive to purchase tickets per hour (poisson distributed). Determine the average time a ticket buyer must wait and the portion of time the ticket seller is busy.

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The ticket booth on the Tech campus is operated by one person, who is selling tickets for the annual Tech versus State football game on Saturday. The ticket seller can serve an average of 2 minutes per customer , on average, 21 customers arrive to purchase tickets per hour (poisson distributed). Determine the average time a ticket buyer must wait and the portion of time the ticket seller is busy.
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