Customers arrive at a railway ticket counter at the rate of 30 per hour. Assuming Poisson arrivals, exponential service time distribution and a single-server queue (M/M/1) model, find the average waiting time (before being served) if the average service time is 100 seconds.

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Customers arrive at a railway ticket counter at the rate of
30 per hour. Assuming Poisson arrivals, exponential service time distribution
and a single-server queue (M/M/1) model, find the average waiting time (before
being served) if the average service time is 100 seconds.
Transcribed Image Text:Customers arrive at a railway ticket counter at the rate of 30 per hour. Assuming Poisson arrivals, exponential service time distribution and a single-server queue (M/M/1) model, find the average waiting time (before being served) if the average service time is 100 seconds.
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