What Is the Average Completion Time for the Shortest Processing

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Short Answer

What is the average completion time for the shortest processing time (SPT) priority rule? Average job tardiness? Average number of jobs at the center?

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Definitions:

Distribution

In statistics, the way in which data or values are spread or distributed across possible values or intervals.

Normal Distribution

A symmetric, bell-shaped distribution of data where most of the observations cluster around the central peak and the probabilities for values further away from the mean taper off equally in both directions.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the data points are from the mean.

Deviation

The amount by which a single measurement differs from a fixed value such as the mean.