A computer processes jobs on a first-come first-served


A computer processes jobs on a first-come, first-served basis. The jobs arrive to the computerevery 6 minutes. The objective in processing these jobs is that they spend no more than eight minutes,on average, in the system(Hint: you can use the Goal Seek function to help with part b)

a) What is the arrival rate (in jobs/hour)?

b) What is the speed that computer must be a have to process jobs, on average (in jobs/hour), tomeet this objective (enter to nearest 0.1 job/hour)? Obviously, processing a million jobs per hour would meet the objective - what I want to know is the slowest processing speed that meets this objective?

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