Customers Arrive Every Three Minutes Governed by a Poisson Distribution

question 18

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 many minutes per hour is the server not helping customers?

• A)less than or equal to 7
• B)greater than 7 but less than or equal to 10
• C)greater than 10 but less than or equal to 13
• D)greater than 13

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