Q5 a) A firm has redesigned its production process so that it now takes 10 hours for a unit to be made. Using the old process, it took 15 hours to make a unit. If the process makes one unit each hour on average and each unit is worth $3,600, what is the reduction in work-in-process value? b) The Avis Company is a car rental company and is located three miles from the Los Angeles airport (LAX). Avis is dispatching a bus from its offices to the airport every 2 minutes. The average traveling time (a round trip) is 10 minutes. i). How many Avis buses are traveling to and from the airport? ii). The branch manager wants to improve the service and suggests dispatching buses every 0.5 minutes. She argues that this will reduce the average traveling time from the airport to Avis's offices to 2.5 minutes. Is she correct? If not, then what will be the average traveling time? Hint: Use Little's Law to solve these problems Q6: Some tasks and the order in which they must be performed according to their assembly requirements are shown in the following table. These are to be combined into workstations to create an assembly line. The assembly line operates 7.5 hours per day. The output requirement is 1,000 units per day. Q6: Some tasks and the order in which they must be performed according to their assembly requirements are shown in the following table. These are to be combined into workstations to create an assembly line. The assembly line operates 7.5 hours per day. The output requirement is 1000 unite ner dav a. What is the workstation cycle time? b. Balance the line using the longest task time based on the 1,000-unit forecast, stating which tasks would be done in each workstation. c. For b, what is the efficiency of your line balance? d. After production was started, Marketing realized that they understated demand and must increase output to 1,100 units. What action would you take? Be specific in quantitative terms, if appropriate. Q7: Sharp Discounts Wholesale Club has two service desks, one at each entrance of the store. Customers arrive at each service desk at an average of one every six minutes. The service rate at each service desk is four minutes per customer. a. How often (what percentage of time) is each service desk idle? b. What is the probability that both service clerks are busy? c. What is the probability that both service clerks are idle? d. How many customers, on average, are waiting in line in front of each service desk