Arrivals to a Truck Repair Facility Have an Interarrival Time

question 7

Essay

Arrivals to a truck repair facility have an interarrival time that is uniformly distributed between 20 and 50 minutes. Service times are normally distributed with mean 30 minutes and standard deviation 10 minutes. Develop a spreadsheet model to simulate the arrival of 100 trucks. Collect information on the time the repair facility is idle and on the average waiting time for trucks.

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