Jack's Ice Cream Parlor Produces Two Types of Ice Cream

question 59

Essay

Jack's Ice Cream Parlor produces two types of ice cream on a contract basis for a major restaurant chain using a large blender.A batch of ice cream A requires a setup time of 45 minutes, a process mixing time of 1.2 minutes per gallon, and 50 gallons are made per day.Ice cream B requires the same machine to be cleaned and setup which takes 30 minutes, a process mixing time of 2 minutes per gallon, and 100 gallons produced per day.
a.Compute the capacity required.
b.What percentage of total capacity required is setup time?

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