A production line at V. J. Sugumaran’s machineshop has three stations. The first station can process a unit in10 minutes. The second station has two identical machines,each of which can process a unit in 12 minutes. (Each unitonly needs to be processed on one of the two machines.) Thethird station can process a unit in 8 minutes. Which station isthe bottleneck station?

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A production line at V. J. Sugumaran’s machine
shop has three stations. The first station can process a unit in
10 minutes. The second station has two identical machines,
each of which can process a unit in 12 minutes. (Each unit
only needs to be processed on one of the two machines.) The
third station can process a unit in 8 minutes. Which station is
the bottleneck station?

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