Consider a job shop currently dedicated to two one-time customer orders. Job 1 takes 5 days to process and job 2 takes 8 days. The company paid the materials for both jobs 2 day after the start of processing. The customer for job 1 pays the immediately upon the completion of the job, while customer for job 2 pays 1 day before the completion of the job. The cost and revenue for the jobs are listed below.

	Job 1	Job 2
Processing time	5	8
Time to pay	2	2
Amount to pay	$2	$5
Time to receive	0	-1
Amount to receive	$4	$8

When job 1 is processed before job 2, the cash gradient is:

Below 0.5

0.51 0.60

0.61 0.70

0.71 0.80

0.81 0.90

0.91 1.00

1.01 1.10

1.11 1.20

1.21 1.30

Above 1.3