Operations Management
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Author: CACHON, Gérard, Terwiesch, Christian
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Chapter 2, Problem 14PA
A large-scale bakery is laying out a new production process for its packaged bread, which it sells to several grocery chains. It takes 12 minutes to bake the bread. How large of an oven is required so that the company is able to produce 4200 units of bread per hour (measured in the number of units that can be baked simultaneously)?
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How many loaves of bread must be baked per minute to produce 4,000 loaves of bread per hour? (Round the answer to 2 decimal places.)
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