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

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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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