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Beate Klingenberg manages a​ Poughkeepsie, New​ York, movie theater complex called Cinema 8. Each of the...

Beate Klingenberg manages a​ Poughkeepsie, New​ York, movie theater complex called Cinema 8. Each of the eight auditoriums plays a different​ film; the schedule staggers starting times to avoid the large crowds that would occur if all eight movies started at the same time. The theater has a single ticket booth and a cashier who can maintain an average service rate of

280 patrons per hour. Service times are assumed to follow a negative exponential distribution. Arrivals on a normally active day are Poisson distributed and average 200

per hour.

a) Find the average number of moviegoers waiting in line to purchase a ticket.
b) What percentage of the time is the cashier busy?
c) What is the average time that a customer spends in the system?
d) What is the average time spent waiting in line to get to the ticket window?
e) What is the probability that there are more than two people in the system? More than three people? More than four?

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