Customers arrive at a suburban ticket outlet at the rate of 14 per hour on Monday mornings (exponential interarrival times). Selling the tickets and providing general information takes an average of 3 minutes per customer, and varies exponentially. There is 1 ticket agent on duty on Mondays. What is the average number of customers waiting in line?
A. 1.633
B. 2.333
C. 2.5
D. 3.966
Here given that customers arrive at suburban ticket outlet at the rate of 14 per hour. that is
Selling ticket and providing general information takes average 3 mins per customer.
Number of customers who will get service in one hour are 60/3 = 20 customers. i.e
The average number of customers waiting in a line is given by
So Answer is A) 1.633
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