Scenario E.1 SimQuick Is Being Used to Simulate the Following Bank Process

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Scenario E.1
SimQuick is being used to simulate the following bank process:

Customer arrivals at the Entrance Door of the bank with an average time between arrivals of 2.5 minutes. The Line Buffer holds 6 customers. If a customer arrives and the buffer line is filled, the customer leaves. The Work Station Teller's processing time per customer is normally distributed, with a mean of 3.0 minutes and a standard deviation of 0.5 minutes. The Served Customer Buffer in the flow chart is used to count the number of customers processed during the period simulated. A 2-hour period was simulated.
The SimQuick simulation is run, and the results are as follows:

-Use the information in Scenario E.1. Approximately how much time did the average customer who entered the system spend waiting in line?

• A) 9.75 minutes
• B) 3.08 minutes
• C) 5.85 minutes
• D) 3.98 minutes

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