Sue Helms Appliances wants to establish an assembly line to manufacture its new product, the Micro Popcorn Popper. The goal is to produce five poppers per hour. The tasks, task times, and immediate predecessors for producing one Micro Popcorn Popper are as follows:

a) The theoretical minimum number of workstations = ___ (round your response to the immediate higher whole number).

b) The assignment of tasks to workstations should be: (Hint: Number workstations sequentially in terms of precedence relationships and combine any applicable tasks.)

Task	Workstation #
A	???

B

???

C

???

D

???

E

???

F

???

Were you able to assign all the activities to workstations equivalent to the theoretical minimum workstation? yes or no

c) The efficiency of the assembly line = ___ (enter your response as a percentage rounded to one decimal place).

\begin{tabular}{ccc} \hline Task & \begin{tabular}{c} Performance \\ Time (mins) \end{tabular} & \begin{tabular}{c} Task Must Follow \\ Task Listed Below \end{tabular} \\ \hline A & 10 & - \\ B & 11 & A \\ C & 9 & A, B \\ D & 10 & B, C \\ E & 7 & C \\ F & 5 & D, E \\ \hline \end{tabular}