San Diego State University Operations And Supply Chain Management Assignment Help - Mean

Question - Mike Dreskin manages a large Los Angeles movie theater complex called Cinema I, II, III, and IV.
Each of the four auditoriums plays a different film; the schedule is set so that starting times are
staggered to avoid the large crowds that would occur if all four movies started at the same time. The
theater has a single ticket booth and a cashier who can maintain an average service rate of 280
movie patrons per hour.
Service times are assumed to follow an exponential distribution. Arrivals on a typically active day are
Poisson distributed and average 210 per hour.
To determine the efficiency of the current ticket operation, Mike wishes to examine several queue
operating characteristics.
(a) Find the average number of moviegoers waiti ...Read More ng in line to purchase a ticket.
(b) What percentage of the time is the cashier busy?
(c) What is the average time that a customer spends in the system?
(d) What is the average time spent waiting in line to get to the ticket window?
(e) What is the probability that there are more than two people in the system? More than three
people? More than four? ...Read Less

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