Project description: Your group has been approached by YESD Department to pack and move the offices of six YESD faculty/staff currently located in 3^rd floor (Brand Hall) to the 4^th floor (Brand Hall). Details of the project are as follows:

1. Items include books, computers, printers and other miscellaneous items. Note that furniture i.e. desks, cabinets, bookshelves etc. do not have to be moved.
2. Exact number of boxes of material to be packed/moved is ten per office. Number of boxes available is unlimited.
3. Only one dolly (maximum capacity 10 boxes) is available.
4. Offices are available (unoccupied) in the 4^th floor.

Activities and estimated times are as follows:

Packing boxes - 6 minutes per box

Loading boxes - 1 minute per box

Moving dolly from old office to new office - 15 minutes

Moving dolly back for next trip - 15 minutes

Unloading boxes - 1 minute per box

NOTE:

1. Unpacking boxes is not part of the project.
2. List all assumptions you make for this assignment.

1a) Strategy 1: Hire 2 persons --- person #1 is (exclusively) responsible for packing while person #2 is (exclusively) responsible for loading/unloading boxes and moving dolly. Assume labor cost of $10 per hour. Compute cost estimate for the project.

1b) Strategy 2: Hire 3 persons --- person #1 and person #2 are (exclusively) responsible for packing boxes while person #3 is (exclusively) responsible for loading/unloading boxes and moving dolly. Assume labor cost of $10 per hour. Compute cost estimate for the project.

1c) If the number of boxes in an office is variable between 8 and 12 (i.e. minimum number of boxes in an office could be 8 and maximum number of boxes could be 12). If you use choose to use Strategy 1 and labor cost is $10 per hour, what is the cost estimate for the project?