A machine cell uses 196 pounds of a certain material each day. Material is transported in vats that hold 26 pounds each. The cycle time for the vats is about 2.50 hours. The manager has assigned an inefficiency factor of 25% to the cell. The plant operates on an eight-hour day.

How many vats will be used? (Round up your answer to the next whole number.)

Question

High School

Answer :

RobinMosby RobinMosby · Answer 1 · 2024-08-01T13:24:08-04:00

The number of vats to be used is 8

Given: Weight of material used per day = 196 pounds

Weight of each vat = 26 pounds

Cycle time for each vat = 2.5 hours

Inefficiency factor assigned by manager = 25%

Time available for each day = 8 hours

To calculate the number of vats to be used, we need to calculate the time required to transport the total material by the available vats.

So, the number of vats required = Total material weight / Weight of each vat

To calculate the total material weight transported in 8 hours, we need to calculate the time required to transport the weight of one vat.

Total time to transport one vat = Cycle time for each vat / Inefficiency factor

Time to transport one vat = 2.5 / 1.25

(25% inefficiency = 1 - 0.25 = 0.75 efficiency factor)

Time to transport one vat = 2 hours

Total number of vats required = Total material weight / Weight of each vat

Total number of vats required = 196 / 26 = 7.54 (approximately)

Therefore, the number of vats to be used is 8 (rounded up to the next whole number).

Answer: 8 vats will be used.

To know more about vats visit:

https://brainly.com/question/20628016

#SPJ11