Customers Arrive Every Three Minutes Governed by a Poisson Distribution

question 76

Multiple Choice

Customers arrive every three minutes governed by a Poisson distribution.A single server is capable of handling twenty-five customers per hour and this service time is exponentially distributed.About how long do customers wait in line?

• A)a little over nine minutes
• B)a little over thirteen minutes
• C)exactly twenty minutes
• D)exactly twenty-five minutes

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