How long each opossum waits to be skinned


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Q: Local hunters deliver opossums to Grabiec Fur Enterprises(GFE). GFE skins the animals for fur and sells the fur and byproducts to a local distributor. GFE notices that opossum arrival and processing follows a Poisson process. The arrival rate is 10 opossums per hour and the skinning rate is 6 possums per hour per employee. GFE is a locally run business with 2 employees(skinners) being run out of a family garage. Due to spoilage they cannot have more 6 possums waiting to be skinned at any point in time.

GFE is interested in determining on average:

Use queueing equations to find the long term averages.

How many opossums are waiting to be skinned?

How long each opossum waits to be skinned?

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