$9\mathrm{.}20$ Dr$.$ Lori Baker, operations manager at Nesa Electronics, prides herself on excellent assembly$-$line balancing. She has been told that the firm needs to complete $96$ instruments per $24-$hour day. The assembly$-$line activities are:

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a$)$ Develop a layout and balance the line.

b$)$ How many people can be processed per hour?

c$)$ Which activity accounts for the current bottleneck?

d$)$ What is the total idle time per cycle?

e$)$ If one more physician and one more paramedic can be placed on duty, how would you redraw the layout? What is the new throughput?