. Consider a fast-food restaurant where customers enterat a rate of 75 per hour, and three servers are working.Customers wait in a single line and go, in FCFSfashion, to the first of the three servers who is available.Each server can serve one customer every two minuteson average. If you are standing at the exit, countingcustomers as they leave the restaurant, at what ratewill you see them leave? On average, how many of theservers are busy

. Consider a fast-food restaurant where customers enterat a rate of 75 per hour, and three servers are working.Customers wait in a single line and go, in FCFSfashion, to the first of the three servers who is available.Each server can serve one customer every two minuteson average. If you are standing at the exit, countingcustomers as they leave the restaurant, at what ratewill you see them leave? On average, how many of theservers are busy

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Chapter12: Queueing Models

Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models

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