A Store Open 24 Hours Per Day Is Interested in Determining

question 15

Essay

A store open 24 hours per day is interested in determining store traffic.They 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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Definitions:

Equatorial

Refers to the positions on a cyclic molecule that are more outwardly directed around the ring, often leading to reduced steric strain.

1,1,3-Trimethylcyclohexane

An organic compound consisting of a cyclohexane ring substituted with three methyl groups at the 1, 1, and 3 positions.

Trans-1,2-Dimethylcyclohexane

A cyclohexane molecule with methyl groups located on opposite sides (trans) at the 1 and 2 positions on the ring.

Stable Conformation

A molecular form in which the compound has the lowest possible energy level, thus being more energetically favorable and less reactive.