In: Statistics and Probability
A bar can have only six barstools. Customers interested in having a drink at this bar arrive at a rate of 6 per hour following a Poisson distribution. It is expected that a customer stays 30 minutes, exponentially distributed. There are only 3 spaces available for customers to wait for a barstool to become available. Customers who want to come in and find there is no room to wait, go to the restaurant next door. Determine:
a. Probability that there are no customers at the bar.
b. The probability that an arriving customer has to wait for a barstool.
c. The average number of customers at the bar.
d. The average number of customers waiting.