Exhibit 13.2 The Following Questions Refer to the Information and Output Below

question 63

Short Answer

Exhibit 13.2
The following questions refer to the information and output below.
A barber shop has one barber who can give 12 haircuts per hour. Customers arrive at a rate of 8 customers per hour. Customer inter-arrival times and service times are exponentially distributed. The following queuing analysis spreadsheet was developed from this information.
-Customers arrive at a store randomly, following a Poisson distribution at an average rate of 90 per hour. How many customers arrive per minute, on average?

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Definitions:

Posttest-Only Control

A research design in which outcomes are measured only after the experimental intervention, without a pretest, to assess the intervention's effect.

Group Equivalence

A condition in experimental research where the groups being compared are equal or similar in all relevant aspects except for the intervention being tested.

Repeated Testing

The process of conducting the same test multiple times to verify the reliability and consistency of its results.

Placebo Control Group

is a group in an experiment that receives a sham or inactive treatment, which is used to assess the psychological impact of receiving treatment rather than the treatment's actual efficacy.