On average, 100 customers arrive per hour at the Gotham City Bank. The average service time for

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On average, 100 customers arrive per hour at the Gotham City Bank. The average service time for each customer is 1 minute. Service times and interarrival times are exponentially distributed. The manager wants to ensure that no more than 1% of all customers will have to wait in line for more than 5 minutes. If the bank follows the policy of having all customers join a single line, how many tellers must the bank hire?

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Practical Management Science, Revised

ISBN: 9781118373439

3rd Edition

Authors: Wayne L Winston, S. Christian Albright

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