27) Scenario B:

Suppose you have a four-activity sequential process. Throughput capacities in units per minute are shown in parentheses:

Task 1 (3) ---> Task 2 (4) ---> Task 3 (2) ---> Task 4 (5).

No buffers exist between tasks, so an upstream task must wait if the downstream task is busy.

What is the actual throughput rate for the sequential process as a whole (i.e., at what rate would units exit task 4)? Pick the closest answer

Group of answer choices

.5

1

2

3

4

5

28) Refer to Scenario B:

What would task 1's utilization be? Pick the closest answer.

Group of answer choices

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

29) Suppose you have a two-activity sequential process: Task 1 ---> Task 2.

Task 1 has a throughput capacity of 10 units per hour; task 2 has a throughput capacity of 15 units per hour. There are no inventory buffers between tasks.

Which of the following would be true?

Group of answer choices

Task 1 would encounter blocking

Task 2 would encounter blocking

Task 1 would encounter starvation

Task 2 would encounter starvation