Question

Question: If the average time between customer arrivals is eight minutes, what is the hourly arrival rate?

Short answer

Answer

A number is calculated by including amounts together and partitioning the entire by the number of amounts.

Step-by-step solution

Arrival rate

A singlerate applying to property at more than one area that's a weighted normal of the person rates pertinent to each area.

The average time between customer arrivals is eight minutes, is the hourly arrival rate 

The ratio of total arrival rate to service rate for a single server$\left(\frac{\lambda }{\mu }\right)$

So, after every 8 minutes, one customer is served.

So, in an hour, the arrival rate of customers

= 60 min / 8 min

= 7.5 customers per hour.