How much time is a customer expected to spend waiting in line and checking out?
The local grocery store consists of two cashiers. The customers arrive at the checkout according to the Poisson distribution and the service times are based on negative exponential distribution. The average customer service time is 4 minutes and the average time between the arrivals of successive customers is 3 minutes. Assume that customers equally divide themselves between the two cashiers.
A) 8 minutes
B) 12 minutes
C) 16 minutes
D) 20 minutes
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
It is not uncommon for firms to attempt to gain secrets from their competitors by hiring away their employees.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Negotiating business contracts with an out-of-state individual via smart phone texting is insufficient to provide a court with personal jurisdiction over that individual
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Eisentrout Corporation has two production departments, Machining and Customizing. The company uses a job-order costing system and computes a predetermined overhead rate in each production department. The Machining Department's predetermined overhead rate is based on machine-hours and the Customizing Department's predetermined overhead rate is based on direct labor-hours. At the beginning of the current year, the company had made the following estimates: MachiningCustomizingMachine-hours 16,000 11,000Direct labor-hours 2,000 6,000Total fixed manufacturing overhead cost$104,000$56,400Variable manufacturing overhead per machine-hour$2.10 Variable manufacturing overhead per direct labor-hour $3.30 During the current month the company started and finished Job T272. The following
data were recorded for this job: Job T272:MachiningCustomizingMachine-hours 60 30Direct labor-hours 10 60The amount of overhead applied in the Machining Department to Job T272 is closest to: A. $137,600.00 B. $516.00 C. $126.00 D. $564.00
Creating an environment that supports two-way communication will help reduce unfair politicking within organizations.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)