1. Hospital ABC serves 350 trays per meal. The associates work 12 hour shifts to provide three meals per day. If each associate’s workload is 31 patients and they are responsible for this number of patients per meal period, what is the required number of FTEs per week to meet this need? 2. Approximately how many patient trays per minute must a centralized tray assembly unit produce to serve 400 patients during a 90-minute mealtime? 3. If a workstation has 2 associates who can assemble each tray at 1.25 trays/min, how long (minutes) will it take to assemble 200 trays? 4. The staff of a tray-assembly line produce four trays per minute and 180 trays for each meal. Three meals are served each day. The line has six employees. How many labor hours are needed to staff the tray line?

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1. Hospital ABC serves 350 trays per meal. The associates work 12 hour shifts to provide three meals per day. If each associate’s workload is 31 patients and they are responsible for this number of patients per meal period, what is the required number of FTEs per week to meet this need?

2. Approximately how many patient trays per minute must a centralized tray assembly unit produce to serve 400 patients during a 90-minute mealtime?

3. If a workstation has 2 associates who can assemble each tray at 1.25 trays/min, how long (minutes) will it take to assemble 200 trays?

4. The staff of a tray-assembly line produce four trays per minute and 180 trays for each meal. Three meals are served each day. The line has six employees. How many labor hours are needed to staff the tray line?

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