Customers Enter the Waiting Line at a Cafeteria on a First-Come,first-Served

question 114

Multiple Choice

Customers enter the waiting line at a cafeteria on a first-come,first-served basis.The arrival rate follows a Poisson distribution,while service times follow an exponential distribution.If the average number of arrivals is four per minute and the average service rate of a single server is seven per minute,what is the average number of customers waiting in line behind the person being served?

• A)0.76
• B)0.19
• C)1.33
• D)1.67
• E)None of the above

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Definitions:

Negative Number

A real number that is less than zero, indicating a direction opposite to positive numbers.

Null Hypothesis

A type of hypothesis used in statistics that proposes there is no statistical significance between two variables, or that a statement of no effect or no difference will be true.

Two-Tailed

In hypothesis testing, it refers to the methodology that considers both directions of a possible effect, allowing for investigation of deviations in two opposite directions from the null hypothesis.

Pearson Correlation

A metric that quantifies the linear relationship between two variables, providing a value in the range of -1 to 1.