Question: In order to make some additional money during your BBA, you have decided to create a micro - firm that makes home - made cookies.

In order to make some additional money during your BBA, you have decided to create a micro-firm that makes home-made cookies. You have a manual mixer, a tray with a capacity of 12 cookies and an oven to bake the cookies. The mixer has a maximal capacity equivalent to three dozen cookies and the oven has a capacity of one tray (12 cookies). Key times are as follows:
- Preparation of dough using the manual mixer =6 minutes (*)
- Preparation of 12 cookies using the dough and colocation in the tray =2 minutes (*****)
- Oven set-up =1 minute (**)
- Baking of cookies =9 minutes
- Cooling of twelve cookies in a special unlimited area =5 minutes (***)
- Colocation of twelve cookies in a box =2 minutes (*****)
- Receive payment from customer =1 minute (****)
(*) This activity requires the permanent presence of the operator
(**) This activity requires the permanent presence of operator and it has to be made before each baking.
(***) This activity occurs out of the tray and the transfer time between the tray and the cooling area can be considered as zero.
(****) This activity occurs always at the end of the process and requires the permanent presence of the operator
(*****) requires a permanent operator
Analyze the following issues:
For question 4, assume that you work alone AND that you have two trays.
4. How many batches of three equal dozens for the same customer can you produce and sell working during four consecutive hours? Take into account the starting and closing times.

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