What is the average waiting time on phone and the


The call center for souq.com has five workers answering incoming phone calls for orders. If the five phone lines are busy, a potential customer gets a busy signal and this represents a lost sales opportunity. The calls occur randomly (i.e., according to a Poisson process) at a mean rate of 15 per hour. The length of a telephone conversation follows an exponential distribution with a mean of 4 minutes. What is the average waiting time on phone and the percentage of lost sales?

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