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It's a beautiful sunny day after a week of rainy weather and both of the local car washes are busy. One car wash is fully automated, touchless, and can wash a vehicle of any size to a dazzling luster in 5 minutes flat.
 
  The other car wash is a fund raiser staffed by eager amateurs that work on one car at a time and can finish it in about 4 minutes (their time is governed by the Poisson distribution). Customer arrivals at both car washes are Poisson distributed with a mean of 10 per hour. How long does it take the average customer to work his way through either system? How many customers are in the systems on average?
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Answer: The automatic car wash has an arrival rate of 10 customers per hour and a constant service rate of 12 customers per hour.

TS = TW + = +
TS = + = .2917 hours

CS = CW + = +

CS = + = 2.9167 customers

The fundraiser system (Poisson distributed service times) has an arrival rate of 10 customers per hour and a service rate with a mean of 15.

TS = TW + = +
TS = + = .2 hours

CS = CW + = +

CS = + = 2 customers

At first glance you might think it's a wash, but the fund-raiser system is faster than the automatic.
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