A ready-to-drink juice manufacturing Plant had recorded a total annual production of 11,124,095.87 L of product with an annual water usage of 108,009 cu.m for the year 2019. In the year 2020, the Plant had produced 9,720,885.51 L using 82,103 cu.m of water. The Plant expresses its water use efficiency (WUE) in terms of volume of water used/volume of product produced and the goal is to achieve a WUE of 9.5. a) What is the Plant's WUE in the year 2019? b) What is the Plant's WUE in the year 2020?

A ready-to-drink juice manufacturing Plant had recorded a total annual production of 11,124,095.87 L of product with an annual water usage of 108,009 cu.m for the year 2019. In the year 2020, the Plant had produced 9,720,885.51 L using 82,103 cu.m of water. The Plant expresses its water use efficiency (WUE) in terms of volume of water used/volume of product produced and the goal is to achieve a WUE of 9.5. a) What is the Plant's WUE in the year 2019? b) What is the Plant's WUE in the year 2020?

Practical Management Science

6th Edition

ISBN:9781337406659

Author:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Publisher:WINSTON, Wayne L.

Chapter12: Queueing Models

Section12.5: Analytic Steady-state Queueing Models

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