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Question

A factory makes women's blouses in a batch flow process. Making one of these blouses requires five distinct sewing operations that must be done in sequence. There are no setup times. The first two of these tasks each take two minutes per blouse, the third and fourth tasks each require one minute per blouse, and the fifth task requires three minutes per blouse. This is a batch flow process, so a batch moves to the next task only after the employee has completed the entire batch. Any of these five operations can be done on any of the 70 sewing machines in the factory. Seventy employees work in the factory. In this batch flow process, in steady state, what is the minimum throughput time in hours for a batch of 100 blouses to complete all five operations?