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Chapter 5, Problem 53P
A theme park has a single entrance gate where visitors must stop and pay for parking. The average arrival rate during the peak hour is 150 veh/h and is Poisson distributed. It takes, on average, 20 seconds per vehicle (exponentially distributed) to pay for parking. What is the average waiting time for this queuing system?
a. 4.167 min/veh
b. 2.0 min/veh
c. 1.667 min/veh
d. 0.833 min/veh
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