During registration at Tech every quarter, students in the Department of Management must have their courses approved by the departmental advisor. It takes the advisor an average of 4 minutes (exponentially distributed) to approve each schedule, and students arrive at the advisor's office at the rate of 5 per hour (Poisson distributed). Compute L, Lq, W, Wq, and p. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 5.50.)

During registration at Tech every quarter, students in the Department of Management must have their courses approved by the departmental advisor. It takes the advisor an average of 4 minutes (exponentially distributed) to approve each schedule, and students arrive at the advisor's office at the rate of 5 per hour (Poisson distributed). Compute L, Lq, W, Wq, and p. (Round answers to 2 decimal places, e.g. 5.50.)

Practical Management Science

6th Edition

ISBN:9781337406659

Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Publisher:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Chapter12: Queueing Models

Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models

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