The men's department of a large store employs one tailor for customer ...
Mean Arrival Rate and Distribution:
- Mean arrival rate of customers requiring fitting is 24 per hour.
- This follows a Poisson distribution.
Customer Fitting Time and Distribution:
- Customer fitting time follows an exponential distribution.
- Mean fitting time is 2 minutes.
Expected Time a Customer Spends in Fitting Row:
- We need to find the expected time a customer spends in the fitting row.
- This can be calculated as the sum of the time a customer spends waiting in line and the time a customer spends being fitted.
- The time a customer spends waiting in line can be calculated using Little's Law, which states that the average number of customers in the system (i.e., waiting in line plus being fitted) is equal to the arrival rate multiplied by the average time a customer spends in the system.
- Using Little's Law, we can calculate that the average number of customers in the system is 24/60 * 2 = 0.8.
- Since there is only one tailor, the average number of customers waiting in line is 0.8 - 1 = -0.2, which is not possible.
- Therefore, we can assume that there is no waiting time, and the expected time a customer spends in the fitting row is simply the mean fitting time, which is 2 minutes.
- Therefore, the correct answer is option 'B', i.e., 10 minutes.