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PA 2-8 (Algo) A campus deli serves…
A campus deli serves 325 customers over its busy lunch period from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. A quick count of the number of customers waiting in line and being served by the sandwich makers shows that an average of 5 customers are in process at any point in time. What is the average amount of time that a customer spends in process? Note: Round your final answer to 1 decimal place.
PA 2-13 (Algo) CodeDeskInc matches programmers with…
CodeDeskInc matches programmers with freelance jobs. It has 34 employees who staff its online chat room. It receives, on average, 245 chat requests per hour, and the average chat session takes 5 minutes to complete (i.e., from start to finish).
On average, how many chat sessions are active (i.e., started but not completed)? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to the nearest integer.
PA 2-9 (Algo) A Rhode Island company produces…
A Rhode Island company produces communion wafers for churches around the country and the world. The little company produces a lot of wafers, several hundred million per year. When in production, the process produces wafers at the rate of 117 per second. During this production process, the wafers must spend 11 minutes passing through a cooling tube.
How many wafers does the cooling tube hold, on average, when in production (in other words, don’t count the time they are not in production)?
PA 2-17 (Algo) A consulting company must hire…
A consulting company must hire 17 new associates per year to replace those who have left the company for other positions or have retired. The company employs 139 associates overall.
How long is the average associate employed at the consulting company? Note: Round your answer to 1 decimal place.
PA 2-14 (Algo) A large-scale bakery is laying out a new…
A large-scale bakery is laying out a new production process for its packaged bread, which it sells to several grocery chains. It takes 22 minutes to bake the bread.
How large of an oven is required so that the company is able to produce 4,000 units of bread per hour (measured in the number of units that can be baked simultaneously)? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your final answer to the nearest integer.
PA 2-12 (Algo) Patients take a drug for severe acne…
Patients take a drug for severe acne for 2 months and there are 90,000 new patients each month.
How many patients are taking this drug on average at any given time?
Solution
PA 2-8 (Algo) A campus deli serves…
A campus deli serves 325 customers over its busy lunch period from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. A quick count of the number of customers waiting in line and being served by the sandwich makers shows that an average of 5 customers are in process at any point in time. What is the average amount of time that a customer spends in process?
Note: Round your final answer to 1 decimal place.
Correct Answer 1.8 Minutes
Answer Explanation
To solve this problem, use Little’s Law. Inventory = Flow rate × Flow time.
The flow rate is 325 customers divided by 120 minutes = 2.7083 customers/minute
5 people in line (average inventory) = 2.7083 flow rate × flow time
Flow time = 5 / 2.7083 = 1.8 minutes – Please click on the Icon below to purchase the full answer at only $5
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