Question: A bakery bakes fresh bread every morning. Baking bread starts by mixing and filling pans with dough. There are a dozen loafs in each pan.

A bakery bakes fresh bread every morning. Baking

A bakery bakes fresh bread every morning. Baking bread starts by mixing and filling pans with dough. There are a dozen loafs in each pan. Each pan is considered a batch. The bread rises in a climate-controlled room then moves to the oven and is baked. After baking, the bread is cooled and slid into a paper bag. One average it takes 15 minutes to mix and fill a pan with dough, and hour for the dough to rise, 40 minutes to bake, 30 minutes to cool a batch and put in a bag. To be profitable, the bakery must turn out 1.25 loafs of bread per minute or better. What is their maximum WIP in whole numbers? 221 loafs 187 loafs 58 loafs 47

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