Question

You estimate that it requires fifty minutes to serve 85 customers through a cafeteria line. If your normal lunch crowd averages 200 customers, about how much time will it take for the lunch crowd to go through the cafeteria line (assuming a constant flow of customers)? To the nearest minutes​

Answer 1

If 85 customers can be served in 50 minutes, then we can find the number of minutes per customer by dividing 50 by 85: 50 minutes / 85 customers ≈ 0.588 minutes per customer To estimate the time required for 200 customers, we can multiply the time per customer by the number of customers: 0.588 minutes per customer x 200 customers ≈ 117.6 minutes Rounding to the nearest minute, we can estimate that it will take about 118 minutes for the lunch crowd of 200 customers to go through the cafeteria line.