We all have times when there are just a stack of jobs to do and we have to decide which ones we’re going to tackle first. A knowledge of queueing theory can help us decide. Suppose you have 5 jobs in the queue and each one will take a different amount of time – Job 1 – 7 hours; Job 2 – 3 hours; Job 3 – 5 hours; Job 4 – 1 hour; Job 5 – 12 hours If you do the longest job first, then the next longest and so on, doing the shortest job last, then the…
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