18 ANSWER 8 In a coal mining operation, the production process starts with extracting coal from underground seams. The coal is then moved through six process steps before it emerges as finished product. The steps and their capacities are as follows: Crusher: 50 tons per hour Conveyor belt: 45 tons per hour Wash Plant: this plant holds up to 20 tons of coal and coal needs to spend 1 hour in the plant Dryer: holds up to 100 tons of coal and coal needs to spend 3 hours in the dryer Screening: 62.5 tons per hour Loading: 59 tons per hour Where in the process is the bottleneck and what is the overall process capacity? This a ctually is a pretty good question. Chat GPT picke d up th e format and the logic of the iron process, but wa s able to transfer the question into the coal domain. I am b y n o mea ns an expert on coal mining a nd processing, b ut these steps exist in coal plants and their sequence is at le ast plausible. To replicate this f o r another q uestion ty pe and to add s ome humor to this p aper, I a lso requeste d a w aiting t ime que stion ( se e the voting op eration d isc ussed a bove), o ne that involves a v ery s pe cific context. QUESTION 9 Generate three queueing theory questions about average waiting times in the context of Homer Simpson's day to day life. He re is the response by Chat GPT .