MC19 – June 2016 Specimen – Do not know how to answer (please help)

@johnmoffat said:
Please do not post images of questions like this – they are copyright and posting them is illegal. Instead you only need to state the number of the question.

The bottleneck activity is whichever activity is limiting the work that can be done.

The answer shows how much time is available for each activity (e.g. the total time assistant can spend on cutting is 2 assistants x 8 hours a day x 6 days a week x 50 weeks a year = 4,800 hours. Since each cut takes the assistant 0.1 hours, it means they would be capable of doing 48,000 cuts.)
In a similar way you can calculate how many cuts the senior stylist and junior stylist would be capable of doing.
Since each cut needs work from all three people, it is the one who has time for the fewest that is the bottleneck.

Sorry for posting the images, I will never make the mistakes again.

I do not understand why you calculate 50 weeks per year. I think that each month has 4 weeks and there are twelve months and each year there are also two non-working weeks.

So the total weeks should be: 12×4-2=46?

@johnmoffat said:
Each month certainly does not have 4 weeks!!! Most months have either 30 or 31 days, which is more than 4 weeks.

There are 52 weeks in a year (of which two are non-working).

Thank sir, I clearly understand the answer right now.