A concrete service owns 3 mixer trucks to deliver concrete to work sites in a local...

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A concrete service owns 3 mixer trucks to deliver concrete towork sites in a local area. For each order, a truck is loaded andweighed with mix at the single station for the order. Then thetruck makes the delivery and returns for the next load. Assume thatthere is always an order for each truck. The delivery times are 15minutes plus an exponential amount with mean 30 minutes andload/weigh times are 8 minutes. This is a variation on the singleserver queue with a fixed population of trucks. Trucks are servedat the loader and return to it as arrivals following theirdelivery. Simulate this system by hand for 3 hours simulated timeand report on the number of deliveries completed. The trucks beginempty, ready to be loaded.

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