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Consider the following assembly line information for manufacturing the latest cell phone in Table 2. The firm wants to produce 80 cell phones per hour.
Table 2
 Task  Time (n minutes)  Predecessor(s)  A 0.5 none  B 0.4 A  C 0.6 A  D 0.2 B, C  E 0.3 B  F 0.7 E, D  G 0.4 F C \begin{array}{ccc}\text { Task } & \text { Time (n minutes) } & \text { Predecessor(s) } \\\text { A } & 0.5 & \text { none } \\\text { B } & 0.4 & \text { A } \\\text { C } & 0.6 & \text { A } \\\text { D } & 0.2 & \text { B, C } \\\text { E } & 0.3 & \text { B } \\\text { F } & 0.7 & \text { E, D } \\\text { G } & 0.4 & \text { F C }\end{array}
-Is this a good assembly-line balancing solution? Explain. What do you recommend?

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