A Restaurant at a Popular Colorado Casino Provides Priority Service

question 12

Multiple Choice

A restaurant at a popular Colorado casino provides priority service to player's card holders. The restaurant has 10 tables or booths where customers may be seated. The service time (time a booth or table is occupied) averages 42 minutes once a party is seated. The customer arrival rate is 8 parties per hour, with the parties being equally divided between card holders and people without player's cards. What is the average time that parties without player's cards wait to be seated?

• A)approx. 24 seconds
• B)approx. 55 seconds
• C)approx. 4 minutes
• D)approx. 40 minutes
• E)approx. 2 hours

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Definitions:

Ions

Ions are atoms or molecules that have gained or lost one or more electrons, giving them a positive or negative electrical charge.

Membrane

A thin layer of tissue or material that acts as a barrier or separation between different environments or substances.

Resting Potential

The electrical charge across the neuronal membrane when the neuron is not actively firing.

Axon's Interior

The interior of an axon is the part of a neuron through which electrical impulses, or action potentials, travel from the cell body to synaptic terminals.