A Service Counter Employs Two Servers

question 60

Multiple Choice

A service counter employs two servers.On average,a server requires 8 minutes to process a customer and service times follow an exponential distribution.Customers arrive at the counter at the rate of 12 per hour according to a Poisson distribution.The average number of customers waiting to be served would be

• A)4.444
• B)2.844
• C)1.600
• D)0.893

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