An industrial food processor needs to design a product layout for a new line of frozen pizza. The company plans to use this new production line ten hours a day in order to meet projected demand of 1,200 pizzas per day. The following table describes the tasks involved in the production of a frozen pizza.

Task Immediate Predecessors Task Duration (Seconds)

A none 10

B A 14

C B 20

D B 16

E C,D 12

F E 2

Design this layout using the decision rule of Longest Processing Time (LPT). Which of the following is closest to the efficiency of your design?

	a.	17%
	b.	60%
	c.	72%
	d.	40%
	e.	82%