Scenario: Yasmin and Zeek Are Lawyers Working at V, W

question 76

Multiple Choice

Scenario: Yasmin and Zeek are lawyers working at V, W, and X LLP. Yasmin works 48 hours a week, and Zeek also works 48 hours a week. They handle two types of cases, intellectual property (IP) cases and corporate fraud (CF) cases. It takes Yasmin 6 hours to handle each IP case and 4 hours to handle each CF case. Zeek can finish an IP case in 3 hours and a CF case in 6 hours.
-Refer to the scenario above.Suppose that the two lawyers' boss wants the total number of IP cases worked on by them to equal the total number of CF cases worked on by them.So long as the total number of IP cases equals the total number of CF cases,their boss does not care which lawyer works on how many of which type of case.So Yasmin and Zeek decide to take advantage of their comparative advantages.How would they divide the tasks?

• A) Yasmin specializes in IP cases, while Zeek specializes in CF cases.
• B) Yasmin specializes in CF cases, while Zeek specializes in IP cases.
• C) Yasmin specializes in IP cases, while Zeek works on both types of cases.
• D) Yasmin specializes in CF cases, while Zeek works on both types of cases.

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