Customers arrive at Rich Dunn's Styling Shop at a rate of 4 per hour, distributed in a Poisson fashion. Service times follow a negative exponential distribution, and Rich can perform an average of 8 haircuts per hour. a) The average number of customers waiting for haircuts = nothing customers (round your response to two decimal places).

Customers arrive at Rich Dunn's Styling Shop at a rate of 4 per hour, distributed in a Poisson fashion. Service times follow a negative exponential distribution, and Rich can perform an average of 8 haircuts per hour. a) The average number of customers waiting for haircuts = nothing customers (round your response to two decimal places).

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Chapter12: Queueing Models

Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models

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