Question

Arrivals at telephone booth are considered to be Poisson with an average time of 10 minutes between are arrival and the next. The length of phone call is assumed to be distributed exponentially with mean 3 minutes.

i) What is the probability that a person arriving at the booth will have to wait?

ii) The telephone department will install a second booth when convinced that an arrival would expect waiting for at least 3 minutes for phone call. By how much should the flow of arrivals increases in order to justify a second booth?

iii) What is the average length of the queen that forms from time to time?

iv) What is the probability that it will take him or her more than 10 minutes altogether to wait for the phone and complete his or her call?

17 Feb 2018
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