What is the maximum authorized router inventory

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Due to rapid changes in technology, a telecommunications manufacture decides to produce a router using just-in-time methods. Daily demand for the router is 10 minutes per day. The routers are built on racks that hold four at a time. Total processing and waiting time is 3.75 days. The process manager wants a safety factor of only 5 percent.

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What is the maximum authorized router inventory?

If you assume that one-half of the racks are empty and one-half full at any given time, what is the average inventory of routers?

What are the answers to (a) to (c) if due to process improvements the total processing and waiting time is reduced from 3.75 to 2.75 days?

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