True or False?   The average number of customers in queue plus the number of servers equals the average number of customers in the system.

Practical Management Science
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Chapter12: Queueing Models
Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models
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  1. The average number of customers in queue plus the number of servers equals the average number of customers in the system.

  2. The main cause of delay at Logan Airport was overbooking, and building a new runway solved the delay problem.

  3. If a company hopes to increase the capacity of a process, the company needs to try to shorten the process’s cycle time.

  4. Little’s Law only applies to an M/M/1 queue, which is a special case of a G/G/C queue.

  5. If a queuing system has deterministic arrival rate λ and service rate μ, and λ < μ, then Lq = 0 in this queue.

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