1. Park Farm Winery in Bankston Iowa employs residents to pick grapes at company-owned vineyard. The pickers can pick and deliver at a continuous rate of 200 pounds of grapes per hour. They begin picking at 5 a.m. and finish at 2 p.m. each day with no breaks in between. The grapes are dumped in a bin located outside the company’s plant which can hold 1000 pounds of grapes. The winery processes the grapes into wine at a rate of 150 pounds per hour. Operations at the winery starts at 7 a.m. When answering the following questions, treat grape picking and delivery as a continuous flow process.
If the bin capacity were only 550 pounds, at what time will the pickers start waiting to dump their grapes?
a. 9 a.m.
b. 10 a.m.
c. 11 a.m.
d. 12 p.m.
e. 2 p.m.
2. Park Farm Winery in Bankston Iowa employs residents to pick grapes at company-owned vineyard. The pickers can pick and deliver at a continuous rate of 200 pounds of grapes per hour. They begin picking at 5 a.m. and finish at 2 p.m. each day with no breaks in between. The grapes are dumped in a bin located outside the company’s plant which can hold 1000 pounds of grapes. The winery processes the grapes into wine at a rate of 150 pounds per hour. Operations at the winery starts at 7 a.m. When answering the following questions, treat grape picking and delivery as a continuous flow process.
At what time will the plant finish processing all the grapes that accumulated in the bin?
a. 2 p.m.
b. 4 p.m.
c. 5 p.m.
d. 6 p.m.
e. 7 p.m.