A checkout line at a grocery store takes an average of 2.25 minutes to ring up a customer's order. On average, four customers are in the checkout line.    Use the Excel template Little's Law to find the average number of customers per hour that are processed in the checkout line.

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A checkout line at a grocery store takes an average of 2.25 minutes to ring up a customer's order. On average, four customers are in the checkout line. 

 

Use the Excel template Little's Law to find the average number of customers per hour that are processed in the checkout line.

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