Introduction to Management Science 12th Edition by Bernard Taylor

تمرين 51

Drivers who come to get their licenses at the Department of Motor Vehicles have their photograph taken by an automated machine that develops the photograph onto the license card and laminates the complete license. The machine requires a constant time of 4.5 minutes to prepare a completed license. If drivers arrive at the machine at the mean rate of 10 per hour (Poisson distributed), determine the average length of the waiting line and the average waiting time.