Customers enter the waiting line at a cafeteria on a first-come, first-served basis. The arrival rate follows
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Customers enter the waiting line at a cafeteria on a first-come, first-served basis. The arrival rate follows a Poisson distribution, while service times follow an exponential distribution. If the average number of arrivals is four per minute and the average service rate of a single server is seven per minute, what is the average number of customers in the system?
a. 0.43
b. 1.67
c. 0.57
d. 1.33
e. None of the above
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Quantitative Analysis For Management
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Authors: Barry Render, Ralph M. Stair, Michael Hanna, Trevor Hale
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