A small appliance manufacturer is planning to open a repair


A small appliance manufacturer is planning to open a repair facility that would receive broken appliances from customers and repair them. There are five different appliance models that would be repaired, identified here as A, B, C, D, and E. The industrial engineering department has provided estimates of the average time to repair each model. These mean times are, respectively, 23min, 42min, 19min, 27 min, and 35 min. The management wants to staff the facility in anticipation of a weekly return rate of 100 appliances per week per model. The facility will operate one shift 5 days per week, and it is anticipated that each repairperson will spend an average of 6hours per day repairing appliances. How many repairpersons will be required for the facility? Write your answer as an integer.

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