A vending machine at City Airport dispenses hot coffee, hot chocolate, or hot te

Question

A vending machine at City Airport dispenses hot coffee, hot chocolate, or hot tea, in a constant service time of 20 seconds. Customers arrive at the vending machine at a mean rate of 60 per hour (Poisson distributed). Determine the operating characteristics of this system.

Which type of queuing problem is this?

Finite Population

Undefined Service Rate

Multi-Server

Finite Que

Constant Service Rate

Simple Single Server

From our analysis we believe customers will complain often about the long wait times?

T/F

Explanation / Answer

there would not be any waiting line, becaues the average customers are 90 per hour and the average time per serve is 20 seconds per cup.

so, total seconds per hour is = 60*60= 3600 seconds

and the average time per serve is = 20, and the number of customers are= 3600/20= 120 customers/hr

so, there would not be any waiting line.

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