Cutting a theme-park queue
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Line chart: Queue length at the ride through the day (people). Values in people in the queue. 10:00: 800; 12:00: 2,400; 14:00: 2,000; 16:00: 1,200; 18:00: 600.
The prompt
A popular ride at a theme park in Abu Dhabi serves 1,200 people an hour, and at peak the queue holds about 2,400 people. The chart below shows the queue through the day. Roughly how long is the wait, and how would you reason about cutting it?
Interviewer-led: the interviewer shows the queue chart and asks for the peak wait, then for levers, then for which lever to test first.
Practice with a partner
1. Send the interviewer link to a friend. They read the case aloud and hold the answers.
2. You open the candidate view: you see only the prompt, a timer and a notes box.
3. Speak the case out loud. Your partner shares data when you ask, then scores you with the rubric.
Interviewer view
For the person running the case
Candidate view
For the person answering the case
The exhibit
Line chart: Queue length at the ride through the day (people). Values in people in the queue. 10:00: 800; 12:00: 2,400; 14:00: 2,000; 16:00: 1,200; 18:00: 600.
My notes on this case
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