A Single Ticket Taker Can Tear Tickets and Direct Movie

question 62

Multiple Choice

A single ticket taker can tear tickets and direct movie patrons to their seats at a rate of 90 per hour. Customers arrive every minute for assistance and always wait, regardless of how long the line gets. Arrivals are governed by the Poisson distribution and service is governed by the exponential distribution.
-Use the information in Scenario C.1.What is the utilization of the ticket taker?

• A) 0.66
• B) 0.55
• C) 0.44
• D) 0.33

Define and recognize different cognitive biases, such as not-invented-here bias and anchoring effect.

Understand the concept of satisficing and its role in decision making.

Recognize the influence of problem framing on decision outcomes.

Identify factors that contribute to the violation of statistical principles in decision making.

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