You have just determined the actual number of workstations that will be used on an assembly line to be 6 using the assembly-line balancing procedure.The cycle time of the line is 5 minutes, and the sum of all that tasks required on the line is 25 minutes.Which of the following is the correct value for the resulting line's efficiency?
A)0.500
B)0.833
C)0.973
D)0.990
E)None of these

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The efficiency of an assembly line is calculated as the sum of task times divided by the product of the number of workstations and the cycle time. Here, efficiency = 25 / (6 * 5) = 0.833.

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