A Distribution of Service Times at a Waiting Line Indicates

question 55

Essay

A distribution of service times at a waiting line indicates that service takes 12 minutes 30 percent of the time and 14 minutes 70 percent of the time. Prepare the probability distribution, the cumulative probability distribution, and the random number intervals for this problem. The first six random numbers were 99, 29, 27, 75, 89, and 78. What is the average service time for this simulation run?

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Definitions:

Third-Degree Price Discrimination

A pricing strategy where different prices are charged to different groups of consumers based on their willingness to pay.

Marginal Revenue

The additional income generated from the sale of one more unit of a product or service.

Marginal Cost

Marginal cost refers to the increase in total cost that arises when the quantity produced is incremented by one unit.

Own Price Elasticity

A measure of how much the quantity demanded of a good responds to a change in its own price, holding other factors constant.