For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.
The customers are arriving slightly faster than they can be processed, so the queue grows. 5.8/hr < 6x10/hr. There does seem to be a missing parameter to arrive at the specific conclusion of a 5 hour wait, though, such as the length of time the queue is open to additional customers during the business day.
edit: As pointed out, I misread and was mistaken. The customers are served slightly faster, so it only comes down to the missing info of arrival time.
Also, in this simulation are the customers arriving in equally spaced intervals or is random arrival time within the bounds assumed?
In the linked article they are arriving randomly. It takes 10 minutes per customer and they arrive every 10.3 minutes.
Aren’t they arriving slightly slower than can be served, according to these numbers:
If one customer takes 10 minutes to serve, you can serve 6 customers in an hour
and you get 5.8 customers every hour, which is less than 6
So you serve 6 customers, meaning you have a leftover capacity of 0.2 per hour or 1 extra customer every 5 hours
Maybe the numbers are switched over or I am misunderstanding something
Edit: nevermind, read the link in the thread and realised I treated the average as the actual serving time and I’m guessing that’s what makes it non intuitive. I’m still not entirely clear on how it works.
Lol yes, you’re absolutely right. It comes down to the serving time. My brain was a bit frazzled I guess.
They’re arriving slower than they can be processed. So the line shrinks slowly it there’s a line.
Yeah I got my wires crossed and mixed up the numbers. According to the linked actual article it comes down to missing info related to arrival time.