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Queue Analysis in Railway and Telephone Systems

The document presents two questions related to queueing theory in a railway marshalling yard and a telephone booth. It requires calculations for expected queue size, probability of queue size exceeding a certain limit, and the impact of increased arrivals on these metrics, as well as probabilities related to waiting times and queue lengths at a telephone booth. The scenarios involve exponential distributions for both arrival and service times, necessitating the application of Poisson processes and queueing models.

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Queue Analysis in Railway and Telephone Systems

The document presents two questions related to queueing theory in a railway marshalling yard and a telephone booth. It requires calculations for expected queue size, probability of queue size exceeding a certain limit, and the impact of increased arrivals on these metrics, as well as probabilities related to waiting times and queue lengths at a telephone booth. The scenarios involve exponential distributions for both arrival and service times, necessitating the application of Poisson processes and queueing models.

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Q.

1 In a railway marshalling yard, goods trains arrive at a rate of 30


trains per day. Assuming that the inter arrival time follows an exponential
distribution and the service time (the time taken to hump a train)
distribution is also exponential with an average of 36 minutes. Calculate:

a). Expected queue size (line length).

b). Probability that the queue size exceeds 10.

If the input of trains increases to an average of 33 per day, what will be


the change in a & b.

Q. 2 Arrivals at telephone booth are considered to be Poisson with an


average time of 10 minutes between one arrival and the next. The length
of phone calls is assumed to be distributed exponentially, with a mean of
3 minutes.

a). What is the probability that a person arriving at the booth will have to
wait?

b). The telephone department will install a second booth when convinced
that an arrival would expect waiting for at least 3 minutes for a phone call.
By how much should the flow of arrivals increase in order to justify a
second booth?

c). What is the average length of the queue that forms from time to time?

d). What is the probability that it will take a customer more than 10
minutes altogether to wait for the phone and complete his call

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