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

question 63

Short Answer

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?

---

Definitions:

Carbene

A reactive molecule containing a carbon atom with two unshared electrons and bonded to two other atoms.

Diazomethane

A highly reactive, carcinogenic organic compound employed in methylating agents and as a precursor to carbenes; characterized by the formula CH2N2.

Carbene

A highly reactive molecule containing a carbon atom with two nonbonded electrons and bonded to two atoms typically forming a divalent species.

Relative Reactivity

A comparison of the reactivity rates of different substances under the same conditions, indicating how easily one substance reacts relative to another.