Question

A dental clinic at which only one dentist works is open only 4 days a week. During those 4 days, the traffic is uniformly busy with patients arriving at the rate of 4.7 per hour (Poisson arrivals). The doctor serves patients at the rate of 1.9 every 10 minutes (with exponential service time). During those 4 days that the clinic is operating, what is the average number of patients in the waiting room?

Note: Only round your final answer. Round your final to 1 decimal place.

Answer 1

Solution:

Hence

Hence,

Hence,

Hence, the average number of patients waiting will be 0.3