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

question 212

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.Yasmin's supervisor wants her to handle equal numbers of IP and CF cases.How much time would Yasmin spend on each type of case? (Hint: Assume that she can work on a fraction of a case.)

• A) 24 hours each on IP cases and CF cases
• B) 28 hours and 48 minutes on IP cases, and 19 hours and 12 minutes on CF cases
• C) 32 hours and 24 minutes on IP cases and 15 hours and 36 minutes on CF cases
• D) 36 hours on IP cases and 12 hours on CF cases

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