A company needs to produce 1,000 units per day (the day is defined as 8 hours of production).There are six tasks to be completed, with a total task time of 12 minutes.The company should have:
A)25 workstations.
B)2 workstations.
C)84 workstations.
D)14 workstations.

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The total task time is 12 minutes, which is 0.2 hours. To produce 1,000 units per day, the company needs to produce 1,000/0.2 = 5,000 units per hour. With 8 hours of production per day, the company needs 5,000/8 = 625 workstations. Since the company has six tasks, it needs 625/6 = 104 workstations. The closest choice is 25 workstations.

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