A gas station with only one gas pump employs the following policy: If a customer has to

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A gas station with only one gas pump employs the following policy: If a customer has to wait, the price is $1 per gallon; if she does not have to wait, the price is $1.20 per gallon. Customers arrive according to a Poisson process with a mean rate of 15 per hour. Service times at the pump have an exponential distribution with a mean of 3 minutes. Arriving customers always wait until they can eventually buy gasoline. Determine the expected price of gasoline per gallon.

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Introduction To Operations Research

ISBN: 9780072321692

7th Edition

Authors: Frederick S. Hillier, Gerald J. Lieberman

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