Hi Tutor,

Could you please help me solve these questions.

Source Text Book: Operations Management, 5^thCanadian edition from William J. Stevenson

Question 1:

As the regional manager of a small chain of pizza stores, you have just received the following data from two of your locations:

Store A Store B

Sales (week)	$8,500	12,500
Number of Customers (week)	2,150	4,175
Total Labour Hours Worked (week)	440	535
Total square meters of operation	128	165

a. Define at least three measures of productivity for these two operations and calculate the productivity of these measures for the two stores.

b. Based on these productivity measures, briefly analyze and compare the two operations.

c. What might be some of the reasons for the differences in productivity?

Question 2: A professional football coach has six running backs on his squad. He wants to evaluate how injuries might affect his stock of running backs. A minor injury causes a player to be removed from the game and miss only the next game. A major injury puts the player out of action for the rest of the season. The probability of a major injury in a game is 0.05. There is at most one major injury per game. The probability distribution of minor injuries per game is

No. of injuries	Probability
0	0.2
1	0.5
2	0.22
3	0.05
4	0.025
5	0.005
	1.000

Injuries seem to happen in a completely random manner, with no discernible pattern over the season. A season is 10 games. Using the following random numbers, simulate the fluctuations in the coach's stock of running backs over the season. Assume that he hires no additional running backs during the season. RN: 044, 392, 898, 615, 986, 959, 558, 353, 577, 866, 305, 813, 024, 189, 878, 023, 285, 442, 862, 848, 060, 131, 963, 874, 805, 105, 452

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