Assignment task: Perhaps you are familiar with the Storm Runner ride at the Hersheypark in Hershey, PA. Suppose that the OM manager at the park is using a mathematical model to better understand the queue for the Storm Runner. Among the choices below, identify the probability distributions that would likely be the best fit for the arrival rate and the inter-arrival time of the customers of the Storm Runner ride. In each choice below, the first distribution is for the rate at which customers arrive, and the second is for the time between customer arrivals.
- Exponential and exponential
- Poisson and Poisson
- Normal and exponential
- Normal and uniform
- Poisson and exponential