Question: The Bijou Theater shows vintage movies. Customers arrive at the theater line at the rate of 70 per hour. The ticket seller averages 36 seconds per customer, which includes placing validation stamps on customers' parking lot receipts and punching their frequent watcher cards. (Because of these added services, many customers don't get in until after the feature has started.) Use Exhibit 10.9.
a. What is the average customer time in the system? One ticket window is being used. (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)
b. What would be the effect on customer time in the system of having a second ticket taker doing nothing but validations and card punching, thereby cutting the average service time to 20 seconds? One ticket window is being used with two workers. (Round your answer to 3 decimal places.)
c. What would be the customer time in the system if a second window was opened with each server doing all three tasks? Now they are using two ticket windows with one line to the next available window.