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Lead Time Blues Inc. manufactures jeans in the cutting and sewing process. Jeans are manufactured in 40-jean batch sizes. The cutting time is 5 minutes per jean. The sewing time is 20 minutes per jean. It takes 2 minutes to move a batch of jeans from cutting to sewing. a. Compute the value-added, non-value-added, and total lead time of this process. Value-added lead time minutes Non-value-added lead time minutes Total lead time minutes b. Compute the value-added ratio. Round to one decimal place