A Single Bay Car Wash with a Poisson Arrival Rate

question 27

Multiple Choice

A single bay car wash with a Poisson arrival rate and an exponential service time has cars arriving an average of 10 minutes apart,and an average service time of four minutes.The server utilization is:

• A)24
• B)40
• C)67
• D)2.50
• E)60

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