What does the arrival rate need to be for Bobby to be busy 85 percent of the time?

Practical Management Science
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Chapter12: Queueing Models
Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models
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Bobby, another enterprising barber, is thinking about advertising in the local newspaper because he is idle 50 percent of the time. Currently, customers arrive, on average, every 50 minutes.

 

What does the arrival rate need to be for Bobby to be busy 85 percent of the time? (Round your intermediate calculations to 3 decimal places and final answer to 2 decimal places.)

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