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Material delays have routinely limited production of household sinks to 400 units per day. If the plant efficiency is 80%, what is the effective capacity?

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This solution depicts the steps to calculate effective capacity in the given case.

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  • MSc (Hons) , Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India
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