A restaurant at a popular Colorado casino provides priority service to player’s card holders. The restaurant has 10 tables or booths where customers may be seated. The service time (time a booth or table is occupied) averages 42 minutes once a party is seated. The customer arrival rate is 8 parties per hour, with the parties being equally divided between card holders and people without player’s cards. What is the average time that parties WITHOUT player’s cards wait to be seated?A) Approx. 55 secondsB) Approx. 2 hoursC) Approx. 40 minutesD) Approx. 24 seconds

Respuesta :

Answer: Option A -- Approx. 55 seconds

Explanation:

It should be noted that, after proper calculations, the average time that parties WITHOUT player’s cards wait to be seated is Approximate 55 seconds. Therefore, Approx. 40minutes, 2hours and 24 seconds are wrong.