Problem 1: Little’s law application
In Children’s Hospital in Seattle there) are on average 17*7 (your ID times 7) births per week (assuming 7 days per week). Mothers and babies stay, on average, two days before they leave the hospital. In Swedish hospital (also in Seattle), the average number of births per week is 35. Mothers and children stay in the hospital two days on average.
a. How many new mothers are staying in Children’s Hospital (at any time point)?
b. How many new mothers are staying in Swedish Hospital (at any time point)?
c. The directors of the two hospitals are negotiating unifying the children wards of the two hospitals. They believe that by doing so they will be able to reduce the number of new mothers staying in the hospital. Are they correct? How many new mothers will stay, on average, in the unified ward? You may assume that the average number of births and the lengths of stay of the new mothers will not change.
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