Problem:
A pharmacist at a busy hospital receives an average of 18 prescriptions requests each hour and it takes the pharmacist an average of 2 minutes to fill each request. Nothing else is known about the distribution that led to these averages.
Required:
Question 1) Then it can be expected that the average time a prescription spends waiting for be filled is which of the following?
A. 30 seconds
B. 1 min
C. 90 seconds
D. 2 minutes
E. 3 minutes
Solve the problem and show all work.