Expected wait time for a hat before the sewing starts

Assignment Help Basic Statistics
Reference no: EM131444615

Alice N. Wunderlund manages the Mad Hatter store at Disneyland. This store sells novelty hats to tourists, especially the ever-popular Mickey Mouse Ears hat. Any hat purchased by patrons is monogramed for free. The store has one computer controlled sewing machine with an operator that sews the monograms one at time. The machine can sew an average of 20 hats per hour. Allice sells a hat requiring a monogram on the average once every 5 minutes.

a. What is the expected wait time for a hat before the sewing starts?

b. What is the average time to get a hat monogramed (wait time plus sewing)?

c. What is the average number of hats waiting to start the monogram?

d. What proportion of the time is the monogram machine busy?

e. Alice currently reduces the purchase price of the hat by 50 cents for each minute ($30 per hour) that the purchaser has to wait before the sewing begins? Write the expression for the expected hourly discount that results from this policy?

f. Alice is considering replacing the policy in e. with a credit of $2 per hat the hat has to wait at all before sewing begins on it? Write the expression the expected hourly discount that results from this policy?

Reference no: EM131444615

Questions Cloud

Determine the marginal pmf : Write the correct integral to calculate and Determine the marginal PMF
Draw the payoff table and the opportunity loss tables : a. Draw the Payoff Table and the Opportunity Loss tables. b. Find the optimal action according to Maximax, Maximin, and Maximum Likelihood. c. Write the expressions for EMV.
Calculate annual coupon interest payments : Assume that today's date is February 15, 2015. Robin Hood Inc. bond is an annual-coupon bond. Par value of the bond is $1,000. Calculate annual coupon interest payments. Company-Robin Hood Price-128.499 Coupon Rate-6.534 Maturity date-2-15-2035 YTM- ..
Compute kevins taxable income : Kevin recieved tax refunds when he filed his 2015 tax returns in April of 2016. His federal refund was $600 and his state refund was $300. Kevin claimed the $300 state tax overpayment as an itemized deduction on his 2015 return. Due to changes in cir..
Expected wait time for a hat before the sewing starts : a. What is the expected wait time for a hat before the sewing starts? b. What is the average time to get a hat monogramed (wait time plus sewing)? c. What is the average number of hats waiting to start the monogram?
Create a wider or narrower interval : Suppose you reduce your level of confidence to 90%. Will this create a wider or narrower interval? Does this mean that precision will increase or decrease?
Identify the null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis : (a) Identify the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis. (b) Determine the test statistic. Show all work; writing the correct test statistic, without supporting work, will receive no credit. (c) Determine the P-value for the test. Show all..
Does nursing theory have a role in clinical practice : What are your thoughts about nurses saying that "theory has no role in clinical practice"? Does nursing theory have a role in clinical practice? How would you use nursing theory to improve or evaluate the quality of clinical practice? Be sure to ..
Stock price in five years if p-e ratio remained unchanged : Kellogg Co. (K) recently earned a profit of $2.52 earnings per share and has a P/E ratio of 19.50. The dividend has been growing at a 9 percent rate over the past few years. If this growth rate continues, what would be the stock price in five years i..

Reviews

Write a Review

Basic Statistics Questions & Answers

  Statistics-probability assignment

MATH1550H: Assignment:  Question:  A word is selected at random from the following poem of Persian poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), translated by English poet Edward Fitzgerald (1808-1883). Find the expected value of the length of th..

  What is the least number

MATH1550H: Assignment:  Question:     what is the least number of applicants that should be interviewed so as to have at least 50% chance of finding one such secretary?

  Determine the value of k

MATH1550H: Assignment:  Question:     Experience shows that X, the number of customers entering a post office during any period of time t, is a random variable the probability mass function of which is of the form

  What is the probability

MATH1550H: Assignment:Questions: (Genetics) What is the probability that at most two of the offspring are aa?

  Binomial distributions

MATH1550H: Assignment:  Questions:  Let’s assume the department of Mathematics of Trent University has 11 faculty members. For i = 0; 1; 2; 3; find pi, the probability that i of them were born on Canada Day using the binomial distributions.

  Caselet on mcdonald’s vs. burger king - waiting time

Caselet on McDonald’s vs. Burger King - Waiting time

  Generate descriptive statistics

Generate descriptive statistics. Create a stem-and-leaf plot of the data and box plot of the data.

  Sampling variability and standard error

Problems on Sampling Variability and Standard Error and Confidence Intervals

  Estimate the population mean

Estimate the population mean

  Conduct a marketing experiment

Conduct a marketing experiment in which students are to taste one of two different brands of soft drink

  Find out the probability

Find out the probability

  Linear programming models

LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS

Free Assignment Quote

Assured A++ Grade

Get guaranteed satisfaction & time on delivery in every assignment order you paid with us! We ensure premium quality solution document along with free turntin report!

All rights reserved! Copyrights ©2019-2020 ExpertsMind IT Educational Pvt Ltd