Find the average time customers wait for an ambulance


A small town with one hospital has 3 ambulances to supply ambulance service. Requests for ambulances during nonholiday weekends average .40 per hour and tend to be Poisson-distributed. Travel and assistance time averages 2 hours per call and follows an exponential distribution Use Table 1.

a. Find system utilization. (Round your answer to the nearest whole percent. Omit the "%" sign in your response.)

System utilization______%

b. Find the average number of customers waiting. (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)

Average number of customers______

c. Find the average time customers wait for an ambulance. (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)

d. Find the probability that both ambulances will be busy when a call comes in. (Round intermediate calculations to 3 decimal places and final answer to 2 decimal places.)

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