In: Statistics and Probability
Pete's Market is a small local grocery store with only one checkout counter. Assume that shoppers arrive at the checkout lane according to a Poisson probability distribution, with an arrival rate of 13 customers per hour. The checkout service times follow an exponential probability distribution, with a service rate of 20 customers per hour. The manager’s service goal is to limit the waiting time prior to beginning the checkout process to no more than five minutes. Also the manager of Pete's Market wants to consider one of the following alternatives for improving service. Calculate the value of Wq for each alternative.
a) this is M/M/1 system
lambda = 13 /hour
mu = 29/hour
Wq = 0.028 hour
b)
this is M/M/2 queue
here mu = 20 per hour
c = 2
Wq = 0.0059 hours