How much longer will caller wait on hold to speak


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Pat Smith and Chris Brown are two applicants for the position of telephone receptionist at Taylar Industries. Both applicants can handle a phone call in an average of one minute. The standard deviation of Pat's service time is 10 seconds, while the standard deviation of Chris's service time is 20 seconds. The inter arrival time of customer calls is expected to follow an exponential distribution, with a mean of 90 seconds.

On the average, how much longer will a caller wait on hold to speak to a receptionist if Chris were hired than if Pat were hired?

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