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A Basic Queueing System Herr Cutter’s Barber Shop Herr Cutter is a German barber who runs a one-man barber shop. Herr Cutter opens his shop at 8:00 A.M. The table shows his queueing system in action over a typical morning. Arrivals The time between consecutive arrivals to a queueing system are called the interarrival times. The expected number of arrivals per unit time is referred to as the mean arrival rate. The symbol used for the mean arrival rate is l Mean arrival rate for customers coming to the queueing system where l is the Greek letter lambda. The mean of the probability distributio