Question 1
Five administration assistants use an office copier. The average time between arrivals for each assistant is 40 minutes, which is equivalent to an arrival rate of 1/5=0.025 arrival per minute. The mean time each assistant spends at the copier is 5 minutes, which is equivalent to a service rate of 1/5=0.20 per minute. Use the model with a finite calling population to determine the following:
Question 2
Schips Department Store operates a fleet of 10 trucks. The trucks arrive at random times throughout the day at the store’s truck dock to be loaded with new deliveries or to have incoming shipments from the regional warehouse unloaded. Each truck returns to the truck dock for service two times per 8-hour day. Thus the arrival rate per truck is 0.25 trucks per hour. The service rate is 4 trucks per hour. Using the Poisson arrivals and exponential service times model with a finite calling population of 10 trucks, determine the following operating characteristics:
Question 3
A large insurance company maintains a central computing system that contains a variety of information about customer accounts. Insurance agents in a six-state area use telephone lines to access the customer information database. Currently, the company’s central computer system allows three users to access the central computer simultaneously. Agents who attempt to use the system when it is full are denied access; now waiting is allowed. Management realizes that with its expanding business, more requests will be made to the central information system. Being denied access to the system is inefficient as well as annoying for agents. Access requests follow a Poisson probability distribution with a mean of 42 calls per hour. The service rate per line is 20 calls per hour.
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