Question: [ Q 5 : Process Management ] ( Spring 2 0 2 1 Final Exam Problem ) Gopher Tax is a family - owned small

[Q5: Process Management](Spring 2021 Final Exam Problem) Gopher Tax is a family-owned small
business that services two types of customers: personal tax and business tax customers. The firm's process
flow is as follows.
Reception: There is 1 receptionist, who needs to spend 8 minutes with every customer (regardless
of personal or business) to fill out some requisite information. Afterwards, 75% of customers will
move on to see their consultants in Department P for personal taxes, and 25% of customers go to
Department B for business taxes.
Department P and John: Each personal tax customer needs to meet with a tax consultant in
Department P for 60 minutes. Department P has 4 consultants. After a consultant finishes
processing a customer, John checks/corrects/makes changes to the consultants. This takes 20
minutes, at the end of which the customer exits the system.
Department B and Emily: Each business tax customer needs to meet with a tax consultant in
Department B for 120 minutes. Department B has 2 consultants. After a consultant finishes
processing a customer, Emily checks/corrects/makes changes to the consultants. This takes 65
minutes, at the end of which the customer exits the system.
During the tax season, the daily demand on average is 40 customers. Everyone in Gopher Tax works 8
hours per day. [Hint: each worker's daily capacity is 8 hours =480 minutes.]
a) Find the implied utilization for Department P.(Please leave two decimal points.)
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