You are walking by Georgetown Cupcakes and you see the line has 10 people. You wonder how long you will have to wait if you join the line. You ask a person in the line if it is a long wait. The person responds that the shop is processing people quite fast and that 5 customers have walked out with cupcakes in the last 10 minutes. What is your estimate of the time you will have to wait in the line? 15 minutes 30 minutes 20 minutes 10 minutes

You are walking by Georgetown Cupcakes and you see the line has 10 people. You wonder how long you will have to wait if you join the line. You ask a person in the line if it is a long wait. The person responds that the shop is processing people quite fast and that 5 customers have walked out with cupcakes in the last 10 minutes. What is your estimate of the time you will have to wait in the line? 15 minutes 30 minutes 20 minutes 10 minutes

Practical Management Science

6th Edition

ISBN:9781337406659

Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Publisher:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Chapter12: Queueing Models

Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models

Problem 26P

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