A Grocery Store Is Trying to Determine How Many Checkouts

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Essay

A grocery store is trying to determine how many checkouts per hour its cashiers should perform. The checkout consists of three components; checking, bagging, and payment. A cashier was rated as 80%, 120%, and 95% on the three different components respectively. If a stopwatch timed her as averaging 20 seconds for each component and the store wants a 10% allowance calculate the total standard time.

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