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Investigate whether or not my local petrol station would benefit, in the way of cutting waiting times, from having more fuel pumps open.  

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Decision and Discreet Coursework Aim: To investigate whether or not my local petrol station would benefit, in the way of cutting waiting times, from having more fuel pumps open. By doing this I hope to be able to simulate opening enough pumps in order to create waiting times less than 1 minute, what I would be willing to wait at a petrol station for petrol. The way in which I will do this is by collecting sufficient data from my local garage that would enable me to simulate 20 cars using the petrol station. The data of which I will need to collect to complete a simple simulation is: Arrival Time of Each Car: This will allow me to calculate an inter arrival time of which is needed to simulate the time in between cars arriving at my garage. Arrival Time of Car n+1 - Arrival Time of Car n = Inter Arrival Time n =...

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