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The Grand Movie Theater has one box office clerk.On average,each customer that comes to see a movie can be sold its ticket at the rate of 6 per minute.For the theater's normal offerings of older movies,customers arrive at the rate of 3 per minute.Assume arrivals follow the Poisson distribution and service times follow the exponential distribution.
a.What is the average number of customers waiting in line?
b.What is the average time a customer spends in the waiting line?
c.What is the average number of customers in the system?
d.What is a customer's average time in the system?
e.What is the probability that someone will be buying tickets when an arrival occurs?
The Grand has booked the Stars Wars Trilogy and expects more customers.From conversations with other theater owners,it estimates that the arrival rate will increase to 10 per minute.Output is supplied for a two-cashier and a three-cashier system.  Number of Channels 23 Arrival Rate 1010 Service Rate 66 Probability of No Units in System 09091727 Average Waiting Time 37880375 Average Time in System 54552041 Average Number Waiting 3.78793747 Average Number in System 5.45452.0414 Probability of Waiting 75762998 Frobability of 11 in System .0245 1ess than .0088 \begin{array} { | l | l | l | } \hline \text { Number of Channels } & 2 & 3 \\\hline \text { Arrival Rate } & 10 & 10 \\\hline \text { Service Rate } & 6 & 6 \\\hline \text { Probability of No Units in System } & 0909 & 1727 \\\hline \text { Average Waiting Time } & 3788 & 0375 \\\hline \text { Average Time in System } & 5455 & 2041 \\\hline \text { Average Number Waiting } & 3.7879 & 3747 \\\hline \text { Average Number in System } & 5.4545 & 2.0414 \\\hline \text { Probability of Waiting } & 7576 & 2998 \\\hline \text { Frobability of } 11 \text { in System } & .0245 & \text { 1ess than .0088 } \\\hline\end{array}
f The Grand has space for ten customers to wait indoors to buy tickets. Which system will be better?
g. Do you think it is more sensible for them to continue the one-cashier system?

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