An average of 12 jobs per hour arrive at our departmentalprinter.a Use two different computations (one involving thePoisson and another the exponential random variable) todetermine the probability that no job will arrive duringthe next 15 minutes. b What is the probability that 5 or fewer jobs will ar-rive during the next 30 minutes?

An average of 12 jobs per hour arrive at our departmentalprinter.a Use two different computations (one involving thePoisson and another the exponential random variable) todetermine the probability that no job will arrive duringthe next 15 minutes. b What is the probability that 5 or fewer jobs will ar-rive during the next 30 minutes?

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Chapter12: Queueing Models

Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models

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