Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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![per hour) are Grilled Vegetables = 25, Grilled Chicken = 15, and Pastrami = 10. There are up to five steps in the process of making
sandwiches, listed below with processing times.
Step
Cut bread
Grill
Slice meat
Toast
Wrap
Grilled Vegetables
0.75 minutes
1.4 minutes
2 minutes
0.5 minutes
Slice
Toast
Wrap
Grilled Chicken
0.75 minutes
1.4 minutes
2 minutes
0.5 minutes
Chicken
Pastrami
Pastrami
0.75 minutes
Only 50 percent of customers want their sandwich toasted, no matter which sandwich is ordered.
Suppose Panini employs 1 worker at each step.
Instructions: Round all answers to 1 decimal place.
(a) What is the implied utilization of each of the five steps in this process?
Cut
%
Grill
%
%
%
%
3 minutes
2 minutes
0.5 minutes
(b) What is the actual and maximum flow rates of the three sandwich types?
Veg
per hour
per hour
per hour](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Ff0fc3d30-4939-4166-86b5-591ca635fe70%2F27505d99-449f-49ce-898c-9891d3061bd6%2Fh617ltd_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:per hour) are Grilled Vegetables = 25, Grilled Chicken = 15, and Pastrami = 10. There are up to five steps in the process of making
sandwiches, listed below with processing times.
Step
Cut bread
Grill
Slice meat
Toast
Wrap
Grilled Vegetables
0.75 minutes
1.4 minutes
2 minutes
0.5 minutes
Slice
Toast
Wrap
Grilled Chicken
0.75 minutes
1.4 minutes
2 minutes
0.5 minutes
Chicken
Pastrami
Pastrami
0.75 minutes
Only 50 percent of customers want their sandwich toasted, no matter which sandwich is ordered.
Suppose Panini employs 1 worker at each step.
Instructions: Round all answers to 1 decimal place.
(a) What is the implied utilization of each of the five steps in this process?
Cut
%
Grill
%
%
%
%
3 minutes
2 minutes
0.5 minutes
(b) What is the actual and maximum flow rates of the three sandwich types?
Veg
per hour
per hour
per hour
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