[See Steps] The pharmacist at Arnold Palmer Hospital, Wende Hluehn-Brown, receives 12 requests for prescriptions each hour, Poisson distributed. It takes her


Question: The pharmacist at Arnold Palmer Hospital, Wende Hluehn-Brown, receives 12 requests for prescriptions each hour, Poisson distributed. It takes her a mean time of 4 minutes to fill each, following a negative exponential distribution. Use the waiting-line table, Table D.5, and Wq = Lq/A, to answer these questions.

  1. What is the average number of prescriptions in the queue?
  2. How long will the average prescription spend in the queue?
  3. Wende decides to hire a second pharmacist, Ajay Aggerwal, with whom she went to school and who operates at the same speed in filling prescriptions. How will the answers to parts (a) and (b) change?

Price: $2.99
Solution: The downloadable solution consists of 2 pages
Deliverable: Word Document

log in to your account

Don't have a membership account?
REGISTER

reset password

Back to
log in

sign up

Back to
log in