Practical Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781939297136
Author: Simpson
Publisher: HERCHER PUBLISHING,INCORPORATED
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Chapter 5, Problem 28P
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Interpretation: The time when toll booth is idle.
Concept introduction: The M/M/1 queue assumes poison arrivals, exponential service times, and a single server serving customers in an FCFS fashion. Poisson arrivals are a reasonably good assumption for unscheduled systems. Further, if there is a mix of many different types of jobs the exponential distribution can be realistic for service times. Otherwise, it tends to be too variable of a distribution.
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