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there is one agent that sells tickets to the movie theater. customers arrive at the ticket outlet at the rate of 10 per hour. if on average a customer waits in line for 6 minutes, what is the expected number of customesr in the queue (aka as average

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Answer:

there should be 1 customer waiting in line at the ticket outlet.

Explanation:

To calculate the expected number of customers in the queue, we can use the following formula:

Expected number of customers = Arrival rate * Average waiting time

In this case, the arrival rate is 10 customers per hour and the average waiting time is 6 minutes. Converting the waiting time to hours, we get:

Expected number of customers = 10 customers/hour * (6 minutes / 60 minutes/hour) = 1 customer

So the expected number of customers in the queue is 1. This means that on average, there should be 1 customer waiting in line at the ticket outlet.

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