The Local Grocery Store Consists of Two Cashiers

question 11

Short Answer

The local grocery store consists of two cashiers. The customers arrive according to a Poisson distribution and the service times are based on a negative exponential distribution. The average customer service time is 5 minutes and the average time between the arrivals of successive customers is 3 minutes. What is the probability that there are no customers in the grocery store?

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