Use This Information to Answer the Following Questions

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Use this information to answer the following questions.
A small suburban post office is frequented by customers at the rate of 15 per hour.The post office has a single employee who typically processes each customer's request at an average rate of 3 minutes per transaction.Assume that arrival rate follows a Poisson distribution and service time follows an exponential distribution.
-Refer to the information above.The postmaster has been receiving complaints from customers about long waiting times.The postmaster is considering hiring an additional employee who will also be able to process each customer's request at the same rate of 3 minutes per transaction.Assume that the post office pays its employees $12 per hour and that the cost of customer waiting time,in terms of customer dissatisfaction and goodwill,is $10 per hour.Assume that arrival rate follows a Poisson distribution and service time follows an exponential distribution.Should the postmaster hire an additional employee? Compare the total costs of this two-employee system with the old single-server queuing system.