Answer to Question #51399 in Statistics and Probability for fatma

Question

A departmental store has a single cashier. During the rush hours, customers arrive at
the rate of 15 customers per hour. The average number of customers that can be
processed by the cashier is 18 per hour. Assume that the conditions for the use of
single-channel queuing model apply. What is the:
a) Probability that the cashier is idle?
b) Average number of customers in the queuing system?
c) Average time a customer spends in the system?
d) Average number of customers in the queue?
e) Average time a customer spends in the queue waiting for service?