Question: A. Students are going through a 3-step process to obtain their ID cards. Each student will spend 2 minutes at the registration desk before going

A. Students are going through a 3-step process to obtain their ID cards. Each student will spend 2 minutes at the registration desk before going to one of three cashiers to pay a fee for the ID card. After that, he/she will visit one of four ID processing stations to have his/her picture taken and ID card printed. Registration takes two minutes. Visits to the cashier and ID processing station take 10 and 20 minutes respectively. If the demand rate is 0.5 students per minute, how long does it take to process 20 students starting with an empty system?

B. What can we assume of this situation if we were to double the processing power at the ID processing station?

A) Cashier station becomes the bottleneck B)No bottleneck C) ID Processing station becomes the bottleneck D)Registration becomes the bottleneck

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