A production line is to be designed to make 500 El-More dolls per day. Each doll requires 11 activities totaling 16 minutes of work. The factory operates 750 minutes per day. The required cycle time for this assembly line is
A) one-half minute
B) one and one-half minutes
C) two minutes
D) 5,500 minutes
E) cannot be determined from the information given

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The required cycle time is calculated by dividing the total available production time by the desired output. Here, $ \frac{750 \text{ minutes}}{500 \text{ dolls}} = 1.5 \text{ minutes per doll} $, which means the correct answer is one and one-half minutes.

A Production Line Is to Be Designed to Make 500