Question

A store open 24 hours per day is interested in determining store traffic. It found that customers arrive uniformly at the rate of 10 customers per hour. The store has a single worker to process customers. The worker takes an average of 5 minutes to process a customer. If we assume that every customer must be processed, what is the average number of customers in the store?

Answer 1

Answer:

Average customers in the system = 5 customer

Explanation:

Given:

Arrival rate of customers = 10 per hour

Average time per person = 5 minutes

Find:

Average number of customer

Computation:

Servicing rate per hour = 60/5

Servicing rate per hour = 12 per hour

Average customers in the system =   10/2

Average customers in the system = 5 customer