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Sweet Baby Jane's Bakery has a plant for processing Deluxe breakfast rolls and wants to better understand its capability. Determine the design capacity, utilization, and efficiency of the plant when producing its Deluxe rolls given the data here. Last week the facility produced 148,000 rolls. The effective capacity is 175,000 rolls. The production line operates 7 days a week, with three 8-hour shifts per day. The line was designed to process the nut-filled, cinnamon-flavored Deluxe roll at a rate of 1200 per hour. [+4 pts.]
a. What is the design capacity?
b. What is the utilization?
c. What is the efficiency?
d. If the actual output turns out to be 150,000, what is the efficiency?

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