A company that receives the majority of its orders by telephone conducted a study to determine how long customers were willing to wait on hold before ordering a product. The length of waiting time was found to be a variable best approximated by an exponential distribution with a mean length of waiting time equal to 3 minutes (i.e. the mean number of calls answered in a minute is 1/3). What

proportion of customers having to hold more than 4.5 minutes will hang up before placing an order?

A) 0.51342 B) 0.22313 C) 0.77687 D) 0.48658

B

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-cohesiveness -think -goals -pay and benefits

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What is a common method used to increase capacity with a lag strategy?

A) overtime B) subcontracting C) new facilities D) new machinery E) A and B

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