The Registration Area Has Just Opened At A Large Convention Of Building Contractors In Banff There Are 115 People Arriv 1 (25.22 KiB) Viewed 44 times
The Registration Area Has Just Opened At A Large Convention Of Building Contractors In Banff There Are 115 People Arriv 2 (36.22 KiB) Viewed 44 times
The registration area has just opened at a large convention of building contractors in Banff. There are 115 people arriving per hour (Poisson distributed), and the cost of their waiting time in the queue is valued at $55 per person per hour as while waiting they are able to watch a juggler who keeps them entertained. The juggler is paid $18 per hour. The local convention bureau provides servers to register guests at a fee of $25 per person per hour. It takes about two minute(s) to register an attendee (exponentially distributed). A single waiting line, with multiple servers, is set up a) What is the optimal number of servers? The optimal number of servers is (Enter your response as a whole number.)
b) What is the cost for the system, per hour, at the optimal service level? For the optimum number of servers, the total cost per hour is $ 183 (Enter your response rounded to the nearest dollar.)
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