In: Statistics and Probability
**** LOOKING TO SOLVE THE SECOND PART TO THIS 2 PART QUESTION; PROBLEM 4 ONLY PLEASE ****
Automobiles arrive at the drive-through window at a post office
at the rate of 4 every 10 minutes. The average service time is 2
minutes. The Poisson distribution is appropriate for the arrival
rate and service times are exponentially distributed.
a) What is the average time a car is in the system? 10
minutes
b) What is the average number of cars in the system? 4
c) What is the average time cars spend waiting to receive service?
8 minutes
d) What is the average number of cars in line behind the customer
receiving service? 3.2
e) What is the probability that there are no cars at the window?
0.2
f) What percentage of the time is the postal clerk busy? 80%
g) What is the probability that there are exactly two cars in the
system? 0.128
Problem-4:
For the post office in the previous problem, a second drive-through
window is being considered. A single line would be formed and as a
car reached the front of the line it would go to the next available
clerk. The clerk at the new window works at the same rate as the
current one.
• What is the average time a car is in the system?
• What is the average number of cars in the system?
• What is the average time cars spend waiting to receive
service?
• What is the average number of cars in line behind the customer
receiving service?
• What is the probability that there are no cars in the
system?
• What percentage of the time are the clerks busy?
• What is the probability that there are exactly two cars in the
system?