A Single-Bay Car Wash with a Poisson Arrival Rate and an Exponential

question 2

Multiple Choice

A single-bay car wash with a Poisson arrival rate and an exponential service time has cars arriving at an average of 10 minutes apart with an average service time of 4 minutes. What is the system utilization?

• A) 0.3
• B) 0.4
• C) 0.5
• D) 0.6

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