Line Balancing Homework Directions: Show ALL work. Solve each part of the below problems. Submit to the appropriate dropbox. A small assembly line needs to be balanced. The cycle time is 1.5 minutes. The precedence diagram looks like this times noted in minutes): a) How would the line be balanced by using the rule longest task time first? (2 points) b) What's the total time available? Total idle time? Assembly line efficiency? (3 points) c) How would the line be balanced if the rule were changed to shortest task time"? (2 points) d) What's the total time available? Total idle time? Assembly line efficiency? (3 points) e) Which rule should be chosen? Why? (2 points) 0.5 0.1 0.5 0.4 0.7 0.2 0.6 0.8