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If the teller takes 10 min (on average) to serve someone and people arrive less often that 1 in every 10 minute, the average wait time is going to be finite. If
by alphaBetaGamma 11y ago
If the teller takes 10 min (on average) to serve someone and people arrive less often that 1 in every 10 minute, the average wait time is going to be finite. If people arrive more often than 1 in every 10 minutes, the queue is going to grow infinity large, and the average wait time is infinite.
So as the frequency with which people arrive approaches 1 in 10 minute (from above), the average wait time will increase dramatically, reaching infinity at 1 person / 10 min.