14. Customers arrive at a single-service facility at a Poisson rate of 40 per hour. When two...
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14. Customers arrive at a single-service facility at a Poisson rate of 40 per hour.
When two or fewer customers are present, a single attendant operates the facility, and the service time for each customer is exponentially distributed with a mean value of two minutes. However, when there are three or more customers at the facility, the attendant is joined by an assistant and, working together, they reduce the mean service time to one minute. Assuming a system capacity of four customers,
(a) what proportion of time are both servers free?
(b) each man is to receive a salary proportional to the amount of time he is actually at work servicing customers, the rate being the same for both. If together they earn $100 per day, how should this money be split?
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