Linlithi Medical provides on-site health screenings for other organizations, and has been hired by the City of Baltimore to conduct the annual health screening of all 250 of Baltimore's bus drivers. The annual health screening for a bus driver consists of the following tasks:

Linlithi Medical has arranged to screen all 250 drivers during one 5-day week. Thus, Linlithi must complete 50 health screenings during each of the 10-hour days. To perform the health screenings efficiently, Linlithi Medical will set up its operation as a product layout, in which the drivers move from station to station until all the tasks of their individual health screening are completed. Please use line balancing to design the most appropriate layout for Linlithi, using the LPT rule to choose among tasks when assigning each task to a particular workstation.

a. What is the cycle time of Linlithi Medical's layout for the Baltimore city bus driver screenings?

b. What is the theoretical minimum number of workstations that Linlithi Medical might have to staff to support this cycle time?

c. At which station will task D, the lung function test, be completed?

d. At which workstation will task F, the pulse stress test, be completed?

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AB Task Name A Description Immediate Predecessor Time Required (minutes) Vision test none 5 min. Hearing test none 7 C Blood pressure test none 3 D Lung function test none 10 E Draw blood sample C 4 F Pulse stress test B, D, E 8 G Doctor's consultation A, F 10