Customers arrive at the local walmart at the rate of 100 per

Customers arrive at the local walmart at the rate of 100 persons per hour. Assume the time between patients arrivals follows exponential distribution. Determine the Lambda Value.

Solution

We are given that customers arrive at the local walmart at the rate of 100 persons per hour.

We know that arrival distribution is nothing but Poison distribution with mean = 100 per hour

Assume the time between patients arrivals follows exponential distribution.

the time between patients arrivals has exponential distribution with parameter 100 per hour

lambda = 100/60 = 1.6667 per minute