RI Littlefield Labs has three stations to process blood testing jobs. Fill out the following table on your scratch paper if needed.

What is the whole factory's capacity (a.k.a. bottleneck rate) in "jobs per day? 

14.4 jobs per day 

12 jobs per day 

13.11 jobs per day 

4.8 jobs per dayr

Littleheld Labs processes blood testing jobs and its first Station takes care of Sample Preparation . It takes, on average, 5 hours to prepare a sample as the raw processing time. Station 1 currently has 1 machine installed. What is Station1's hourly capacity? 

5 hours per job 

24/5 = 4.8 jobs per hour 

24/5 = 4.8 hours per job 

1/5 = 0.2 jobs per hour 

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Station #1 #2 #3 Mean Raw Processing Time 5 hours 1.5+0.5-2 hours 1.83 hours Number of Parallel Machines Installed 3 1 1 Capacity (jobs per Bottleneck? (Yes day) or No) Station #1 #2 #3 Mean Raw Processing Time 5 hours 1.5+0.5-2 hours 1.83 hours Number of Parallel Machines Installed 3 1 1 Capacity (jobs per Bottleneck? (Yes day) or No)

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