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The below question is taken from December 2016 past paper it,s called “Sweet treats bakery”.I understood till ranking but cannot understand how the time was allocated .How A is the right answer?
On Wednesday, the mixing process is identified as the bottleneck process. On this day, only 120 minutes in the mixing process are available. Assuming that Sweet Treats Bakery wants to maximise profit, what is the optimal production plan for Wednesday?
A 80 brownies, 30 muffins and 100 cupcakes
B 0 brownies, 90 muffins and 100 cupcakes
C 120 brownies, 0 muffins and 100 cupcakes
D 40 brownies, 60 muffins and 100 cupcakesThe question says that the minimum daily demand must be met.
Therefore they have to produce 30 brownies, 20 muffins, and 10 cupcakes, whatever happens.
It is only after producing the minimum demand that you decide how to use the remaining time, ranking in order of the throughput return.
@johnmoffat said:
The question says that the minimum daily demand must be met.Therefore they have to produce 30 brownies, 20 muffins, and 10 cupcakes, whatever happens.
It is only after producing the minimum demand that you decide how to use the remaining time, ranking in order of the throughput return.
sorry Sir! still confusing.Can you please show me the workings showing how 120 minutes were allocated between 3 products?In that way i will grasp it quickly.
See my previous answers about this question, where I show the workings:
@johnmoffat said:
See my previous answers about this question, where I show the workings:We had 120 minutes after satisfying the maximum demand of cupcakes why you chose to satisfy the minimum demands of muffins and brownies when we had sufficient minutes available to satisy at least one of those?Why we did not chose to satisfy the maximum demand ?
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