A machine makes two components; call them types A and B. It takes 250 seconds to switch production between the component types. During that time, no production occurs. When in production, each unit of A or B requires 0.5 second to be completed. The two components, A and B, are combined in an assembly process to make a final product; call it C. The assembly step can combine the two components into 1 unit every 2 seconds, or 30 units per minute.

The average inventory depends on the manufacturing batch size.

Its formula is:

Step-by-step explanation:

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Question complete:

"A machine makes two components, call them type A and B. It takes 250 seconds to switch production between the component types. During that time no production occurs. When in production, each unit of A or B requires 0.5 seconds to be completed. The two components, A and B are combined in an assembly process to make a final product, call it C. The assembly step can combine the two components into 1 unit every 2 seconds. What is the average inventory of B components?"

We have two steps in this process: the manufacturing of A and B and the assembly process.

We are not told about the batch size, so we will treat that as a variable called n. This represents the amount of units (of A or B) that are manufactured per cycle.

Time (seconds) to manufacture n units of A and n units of B:

Time (seconds)to assemble n units of C

Then the total time of the cycle is:

The average inventory of B is n units per cycle, which lasts (3n+250) seconds.

For a batch size of 100 units, the average inventory is:

For a batch size of 1,000 units, the average inventory is:

option a is correct.

step-by-step explanation:

scale factor: it is used to find proportional measurements.

proportions means having the same ratio.

scale factor is the ratio of the model measurement to the actual measurement in a simplest form.

or we can say that the ratio of any two corresponding lengths in two similar geometric figures

if the scale factor is more than 1, then it is an enlargement,

if the scale factor less than 1, then it is a reduction.

given the two geometric figure:

by definition of proportions, we have