A Store Open 24 Hours Per Day Is Interested in Determining

question 44

Essay

A store open 24 hours per day is interested in determining store traffic.It found that customers arrive uniformly at the rate of 10 customers per hour.The store has a single worker to process customers.The worker takes an average of 5 minutes to process a customer.If we assume that every customer must be processed,what is the average number of customers in the store?

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