Problem 1 A gas station with only one gas pump employs the following policy: if a customer has to wait‚ the price is $3.50 per gallon; if they don’t have to wait‚ the price is $4.00 per gallon. Customers arrive according to a Poisson process with a mean rate of 20 per hour. Service times at the pump have an exponential distribution with a mean of 2 minutes. Arriving customers always wait until they can by gasoline. Determine the expected price of gasoline per gallon. Problem 3 The Old Colony theme
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Stephany Coffman United States: 1919-1945 Historical Problems Paper #1 Woodrow Wilson has been described as “cold‚ aloof and often arrogant‚ but he was not all intellect.” By the time Wilson was elected governor of New Jersey he had never held a political office‚ and had never taken more than a theorist’s interest in politics. Wilson’s personal view on how the Presidential office should be run is to lead a country rather than to be lead. He believed that a president should act like a prime
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Tatiana Tripp Trader Joe’s Case Study Analysis COM 742 11/19/2014 The current problem is that advertising and growth can lead to an end of the “quirkiness” that is currently Trader Joe’s strongest attribute. Already‚ a bit of authenticity from the original stores has slipped away from expansion. A former employee‚ as shown in the case study‚ said “In the early days we never tried to be a neighborhood store.”1 There is no question that trying to incorporate more traditional advertising and thus‚ competing
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1) A 4-kg mass moving with speed 2 m/s‚ and a 2-kg mass moving with a speed of 4 m/s‚ are gliding over a horizontal frictionless surface. Both objects encounter the same horizontal force‚ which directly opposes their motion‚ and are brought to rest by it. Which statement best describes their respective stopping distances? (A) The 4-kg mass travels twice as far as the 2-kg mass before stopping. (B) The 2-kg mass travels twice as far as the 4-kg mass before stopping. (C) Both masses travel the
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Assignment #4 Case Problem: Stateline Shipping and Transport Company MAT540: Quantitative Methods Vargha Azad 09/08/13 In Excel‚ or other suitable program‚ develop a model for shipping the waste directly from the 6 plants to the 3 waste disposal sites. Solve the model you developed in #1 (above) and clearly describe the results. In Excel‚ or other suitable program. Develop a transshipment model in which each of the plants and disposal sites
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The Apportionment Problem Module 5 Assignment 1 Bobbi Brooks Argosy University‚ Seattle For this assignment‚ I needed to find out how many representatives are going to be assigned to each of the 10 states in the newly democratic nations. The first step was to add all of the state’s populations together. The total population is 532‚188. The next step was to divide each individual states population by the total population to see how many seats that each state should receive for representation
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that people living close to landfills suffer from lung and heart diseases from the toxic gasses that are released from the landfill degradation. Love Canal Follow-up Health Study Ground Water Pollution - Emissions into Water The key environmental problem we face as a result of landfills is groundwater pollution from leachates (the liquid that drains or ’leaches’ from a landfill). Although they intended to protect human beings from toxins‚ due to natural deterioration the protective barriers only delay
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Probability of Things I Do They’re many things in life that involve the uses of probability and it is apparent that it is used in everyone’s life today including myself. While people think math is irrelevant after graduation‚ statistics is heavily used especially in regards to probability. While people do many things‚ some of mine that deal with probability are playing a game of pool‚ as well as the probability of how many games our football team has a chance of winning‚ and another example
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Problem Solving Breach of contract according to the online English dictionary is the failure to perform a term of contract that is either put in written or oral. For example‚ failure of tenants to pay rent in the agreed time by the landlord‚ acts which show a party will not be able to complete the agreed work in time‚ or failure of the landlord to provide security to his tenants. Breach of contract is one of the most common cases of law suits. This paper will evaluate the effect of breach of
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SOCIAL PROBLEMS Social problems‚ also called social issues‚ affect every society‚ great and small. Even in relatively isolated‚ sparsely populated areas‚ a group will encounter social problems. Part of this is due to the fact that any members of a society living close enough together will have conflicts. It’s virtually impossible to avoid them‚ and even people who live together in the same house don’t always get along seamlessly. On the whole though‚ when social problems are mentioned they tend
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