Rockness Recycling refurbishes rundown business students. The process uses a mov

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Rockness Recycling refurbishes rundown business students. The process uses a moving belt, which carries each student through the five steps of the process in sequence. The five steps are as follows:

Step 1: Unpack & place on belt 1 minute
Step 2: Strip off bad habits 1.5 minutes
Step 3: Scrub & clean mind 0.8 minute
Step 4: Insert modern methods 1 minute
Step 5: Polish & pack 1.2 minutes

One faculty member is assigned to each of these steps. Faculty members work a 40-hour week and rotate jobs each week. Mr. Rockness has been working on a contract from General Electric, which requires delivery of 2,000 refurbished students per week. A representative of the human resources department has just called complaining that the company hasn't been receiving the agreed-upon number of students. A check of finished goods inventory by Mr. Rockness reveals that there is no stock left. What is going on?

Explanation / Answer

If there is only 1 faculty member performing step 2 each week, and that faculty member works a 40 hour shift, then the maximum amount of students that can be stripped of bad habits is 40*60 / 1.5 = 1600 (Since it takes 1.5 minutes to strip each student of bad habits). Thus, only having one faculty member working on the second step is insufficient to produce 200 students a week.

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