A Small Popular Restaurant at an Interstate Truck Stop Provides

question 28

Multiple Choice

A small popular restaurant at an interstate truck stop provides priority service to truckers. The restaurant has ten tables where customers may be seated. The service time averages 40 minutes once a party is seated. The customer arrival rate is 12 parties per hour, with the parties being equally divided between truckers and non-truckers.
What is the approximate average time in minutes that truckers wait to be seated?

• A) 2.7
• B) 4.5
• C) 8.4
• D) 13.6
• E) 15.8

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