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a. The expected total service time for customers = 70 minutes

b. The variance for the total service time = 700 minutes

c. It is not likely that the total service time will exceed 2.5 hours

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Refer to Exercise 3.122. If it takes approximately ten minutes to serve each customer, find the mean and variance of the total service time for customers arriving during a 1-hour period. (Assume that a sufficient number of servers are available so that no customer must wait for service.) Is it likely that the total service time will exceed 2.5 hours?

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Customers arrive at a checkout counter in a department store according to a Poisson distribution at an average of seven per hour.

From the information supplied, we denote that

$X=$ Customers that arrive within the hour

and since $X$ follows a Poisson distribution with mean $\alpha$ = 7

Therefore,

$E(X)= 7$

$& V(X)=7$

Let $Y =$ the total service time for customers arriving during the 1 hour period.

Now, since it takes approximately ten minutes to serve each customer,

$Y=10X$

For a random variable $X$ and a constant $c$ ,

$E(cX)=cE(X)\\V(cX)=c^2V(X)$

Thus,

$E(Y)=E(10X)=10E(X)=10*7=70\\V(Y)=V(10X)=100V(X)=100*7=700$

Therefore the expected total service time for customers = 70 minutes

and the variance for serving time = 700 minutes

Also, the probability of the distribution $Y$ is,

$p_Y(y)=p_x(\frac{y}{10} )\frac{dx}{dy} =\frac{\alpha^{\frac{y}{10} } }{(\frac{y}{10})! }e^{-\alpha } \frac{1}{10}\\ =\frac{7^{\frac{y}{10} } }{(\frac{y}{10})! }e^{-7 } \frac{1}{10}$

So the probability that the total service time exceeds 2.5 hrs or 150 minutes is,

$P(Y>150)=\sum^{\infty}_{k=150} {p_Y} (k) =\sum^{\infty}_{k=150} \frac{7^{\frac{k}{10} }}{(\frac{k}{10})! }.e^{-7} .\frac{1}{10} \\=\frac{7^{\frac{150}{10} }}{(\frac{150}{10})! } .e^{-7}.\frac{1}{10} =0.002$

0.002 is small enough, and the function $\frac{7^{\frac{k}{10} }}{(\frac{k}{10} )!} .e^{-7}.\frac{1}{10}$ gets even smaller when $k$ increases. Hence the probability that the total service time exceeds 2.5 hours is not likely to happen.