2 a. A mortgage service office has the following four activities involved in approving a loan application. Note that a working day is 8 hours and there are 60 minutes in one hour.

Activity	Time (minutes)
A. Property survey	33
B. Credit report	30
C. Title search	41
D. Final decision	25

Activities B and C are combined together and assigned to two employees, while the other two employees are responsible for activities A and D respectively. What would be the maximum number of loan applications the office can process per day?

2b.

A mortgage service office has the following four activities involved in approving a loan application. Note that a working day is 8 hours and there are 60 minutes in one hour.

Activity	Time (minutes)
A. Property survey	30
B. Credit report	18
C. Title search	21
D. Final decision	38

With four employees, every employee can perform any activity and more than one activity. What would be the mortgage office's maximum direct labor utilization (DLU) under this setting?