You Are Trying to Estimate the Average Amount a Family

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Essay

You are trying to estimate the average amount a family spends on food during a year.In the past,the standard deviation of the amount a family has spent on food during a year has been approximately $1200.If you want to be 99% sure that you have estimated average family food expenditures within $60,how many families do you need to survey?

Understand the fundamental principles of queuing theory and its metrics.

Apply mathematical formulas to calculate key queuing metrics such as average waiting time, average number of customers in the queue/system, and service rates.

Identify different queuing behaviors and systems including FCFS, single server, and multiple queues dynamics.

Recognize the assumptions and applications of the Poisson process in queuing theory.

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