TRUE OR FALSE Highly flexible facilities plans should be avoided because they do not achieve optimal results.

A real estate agent is considering changing her land line phone plan. There are three plans to choose from, all of which involve a monthly service charge of $20. Plan A has a cost of $.43 a minute for daytime calls and $.18 a minute for evening calls. Plan B has a charge of $.53 a minute for daytime calls and $.15 a minute for evening calls. Plan C has a flat rate of $80 with 250 minutes of calls allowed per month and a charge of $.40 per minute beyond that, day or evening. a. Determine the total charge under each plan for this case: 140 minutes of day calls and 60 minutes of evening calls in a month. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.)   b. If the agent will only use the service for daytime calls, over what range of call minutes will each plan be optimal? (Round each answer to the nearest whole number. Include the indifference point itself in each answer.)   c. Suppose that the agent expects both daytime and evening calls. At what point…

What are some capacity balance problems faced by the following organizations or facilities?   a An airline terminal   b. A university computing lab   c. A cloning manufacturer