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  1. Customers arrive at a ticket counter at a rate of 50 per hr and tickets are issued in the order of their arrival. The average time taken for issuing a ticket is 1 min. Assuming that customer arrivals form a Poisson process and service times are exponentially distributed, the average waiting time in queue in min is
    1. 3
    2. 4
    3. 5
    4. 6
Correct Option: C

λ = 50, µ = 60

t =
λ
= 0.0833hr
μ (μ - λ)

= 5 min.



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