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4(c). Let Li denote the time until a customer is lost when you start with i busy servers.

Note that L1 = T1 + L2 . Let T be the additional time after two servers busy until the
first event, which is the minimum time of the events from two busy servers and the
queue of customer and hence has the exponential distribution with rate 2µ + λ. Let
X = 1 if the first event is an arrival and let it be 0 if it is a departure. Then, reasoning
as in part (b) gives that

1 λ 2µ
E[L2 ] = E[T ] + 0 · P (X = 1) + E[L1 ]P (X = 0) = +0· + E[L1 ]
λ + 2µ λ + 2µ λ + 2µ
1 2µ 1 2µ(λ + µ) 2µ
= + (E[T1 ] + E[L2 ]) = + + E[L2 ] .
λ + 2µ λ + 2µ λ + 2µ λ2 (λ + 2µ) λ + 2µ

1 2µ(λ+µ)
Thus E[L2 ] = λ
+ λ3
.

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