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Question 344

A major manufacturer of popular beverages has appointed a local distributor to serve a specific territory. The demand for the beverages has a pronounced seasonal pattern. The distributor performs well overall, but is repeatedly unable to keep up with fulfilling many customer orders during peak demand periods. The distributor's current delivery capability is stretched to deliver 60 tons of merchandise per day whereas the season's peak demand periods need a daily delivery capability of up to 100 tons.

The distributor is under pressure to fully meet the year-round market demand in order to stay in business. The distributor's management wants to identify and consider more cost-effective options as resorting to adding more trucks and drivers would not be economically feasible.

A business analyst (BA) has spent several days observing and measuring the warehouse activities to understand the situation and to gain insights into possible solutions. The delivery workflow is a four-step process: (1) picking the orders and assembling them on trays, (2) bringing the trays to the loading bay, (3) loading the orders into trucks, and (4) delivering the orders to customers. As the following table illustrates, overall performance depends is dependent on five major resources: (1) the workers who pick the orders and load them into trucks, (2) the tallyers who check the orders, (3) the drivers, (4) the trucks, and (5) eight loading bays (LBs).

If the driver's average throughput is 0.6 tons/hour, how many hours per day would 15 drivers have to work to deliver 100 tons of merchandise?

    Correct Answer: A

    To find the number of hours 15 drivers need to work to deliver 100 tons of merchandise, we can use the given throughput information. Each driver has an average throughput of 0.6 tons per hour. Therefore, 15 drivers working together will have a total throughput of 0.6 tons/hour * 15 = 9 tons/hour. To deliver 100 tons, we calculate the required hours: 100 tons / 9 tons/hour = 11.11 hours. Since drivers cannot work a fraction of an hour in this context, the number of hours must be rounded up to the next whole number, which is 12. Hence, 15 drivers would need to work 12 hours each day to deliver 100 tons of merchandise.

Discussion
siliconvalleykamOption: D

And D 11, Calc 100/.6 = 166.67 166.67/15 = 11

NickMane

11h * 15 drivers = 165hours.. 0,6 tons gets loaded every hour, so 165 * 0,6 = 99tons.. you haven't fulfilled requirement Also 6 upvots hurt a but

cc2104Option: A

Ans A 0.6 x 15 = 9 100/9 = 11,11 hours and the number of hours should be extend to 12 I think that drivers should work 12 hours. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to transfer 100 tons of merchandise

Sha7rourOption: A

Answer is A, they will deliver more than 100 Tons 0.6 * 15 = 9 Tons/H 9*12h + 108 all other answers will not deliver 100 tons.

QualmsOption: D

Option D. 11 Throughput (0.6) for one driver = tons per hour (T/H), for 15 drivers and 100 tons = 0.6 x 15 = 100/T, hence, T = 100/9 = 11.11, approx. 11 hrs

NickMane

>10 and <11 = ~11, hence >11 is approx 12, you need more then eleven full hours.. 12 is correct

maestro169Option: A

Ans = A 0.6 x 15 = 9 100/9 = 11.11 hours and the number of hours should be rounded to 12 to accomplish the task of delivery 100tons

Yoli22_Option: D

Ideally the anwser should be 12. But I think per math calculations its 11hr and 11 mins rounded to 11 is 99tons per day. The key information is that the distributor needs to get capacity of up to 100 ton per day. 99 tons per day is sufficient based on this. Hence 11hrs is sufficient. 12 would be over by 8 and that can lead to waste. So 11 is the best answer.

OlivierPaudexOption: D

The exact answer is 15 drivers * 0,6 tons/hour = 9 tons/hour To deliver 100 tons : 100/9 = 11,11 Answer should be A : 12 hours Again, why is 11 hours the right answer ? Why does Examtopics not correct it, or at least give some explanation

OlivierPaudex

Looking to find an answer to this tricky question is this rule : When you approximatively round a number, you always take it without the decimal, so following this rule : 11,11 will be 11. If this is the rule followed by IIBA, then the answer would be 11h.