A telephone company is planning to install telephone booths in a new airport. It has established the policy that a person should not have to wait more than 1070 OL the times he tries to use a phone. The demand for use is estimated to be Poisson with an average of 30 per hour. The average phone call has an exponential distri- Sution with a mean time of 5 min. How many phone booths should be installed?

A telephone company is planning to install telephone booths in a new airport. It has established the policy that a person should not have to wait more than 1070 OL the times he tries to use a phone. The demand for use is estimated to be Poisson with an average of 30 per hour. The average phone call has an exponential distri- Sution with a mean time of 5 min. How many phone booths should be installed?

College Algebra

1st Edition

ISBN:9781938168383

Author:Jay Abramson

Publisher:Jay Abramson

Chapter6: Exponential And Logarithmic Functions

Section6.8: Fitting Exponential Models To Data

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