Question: There are five processes, labeled A through E, and your tea bags start at Process A, then go to Process B, C, D, and E.

There are five processes, labeled A through E, and your tea bags start at Process A, then go to Process B, C, D, and E. The process map looks a bit like this: Start -> A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> Finish. You have the following process information: Process A requires 14 minutes per tea bag. Process B can do 4.8 tea bags per hour. Process C can make 3.4 tea bags per hour. Process D does 33.1 tea bags per 8-hour shift. Process E requires 6.33 minutes per tea bag. Your boss wants to add an entire additional workstation to Station C, so the two Station C's would be working in parallel. She thinks this will really speed up the process. How many tea bags per hour can you now do if you added the extra workstation to Station C? (Please round your answer to the nearest integer; if you want to enter 12.3456, please just enter 12)[a] Assume your boss has gotten her way and added the extra workstation to Station C. She likes the results so much she wants to add yet another workstation to Station C, so she would have 3 independent Station C's in parallel. What would the expected results be?

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