Exhibit 12.5
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The owner of Sal's Italian Restaurant wants to study the growth of his business using simulation. He is interested in simulating the number of customers and the amount ordered by customers each month. He currently serves 1000 customers per month and feels this can vary uniformly between a decrease of as much as 5% and an increase of up to 9%. The bill for each customer is a normally distributed random variable with a mean of $20 and a standard deviation of $5. The average order has been increasing steadily over the years and the owner expects the mean order will increase by 2% per month. You have created the following spreadsheet to simulate the problem.
-The standardized queuing system notation such as M/M/1 or M/G/2 is referred to as
A) Kendall notation.
B) Erlang notation.
C) Poisson notation.
D) Queuing notation.

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Exhibit 12.5
The following questions use the information below.
The owner of Sal's Italian Restaurant wants to study the growth of his business using simulation. He is interested in simulating the number of customers and the amount ordered by customers each month. He currently serves 1000 customers per month and feels this can vary uniformly between a decrease of as much as 5% and an increase of up to 9%. The bill for each customer is a normally distributed random variable with a mean of $20 and a standard deviation of $5. The average order has been increasing steadily over the years and the owner expects the mean order will increase by 2% per month. You have created the following spreadsheet to simulate the problem.  
-The standardized queuing system notation such as M/M/1 or M/G/2 is referred to as
A) Kendall notation. 
B) Erlang notation. 
C) Poisson notation. 
D) Queuing notation.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The standardized queuing system notation is referred to as Kendall notation, named after D. G. Kendall who introduced it in 1953. Erlang notation refers to a system of measuring call traffic in telecommunications, while Poisson notation is a concept in probability theory. "Queuing notation" is a vague and ambiguous term.

Exhibit 12.5 The Following Questions Use the Information Below