Reference no: EM132827024

A medical practice has 5 physicians who share a common waiting area. Patients arrive at the practice for their scheduled appointment at an average rate of 21.9 patients per hour, and on the average, patients wait 14.1 minutes in the waiting room before seeing their physician and that the average treatment time by a physician is 12.4 minutes per patient. Assume that all of the patients arrive at the practice unaccompanied by anyone else and that all patients wait in the waiting room before being seen by a physician. What is the expected number of occupied seats in the waiting room? Maintain at least 3 decimal place in all intermediate calculations, and report your final answer to 2 decimal places. Do not round average values to whole numbers.