Consider once again the manufacturing line of Example 12.10, where the optimal values for...

Consider once again the manufacturing line of Example 12.10, where the optimal values for v₅ and v₆ turned out to be 7 and 9, respectively (using exhaustive enumeration).

(a) Why do you think that v₅ is “relatively large” (i.e., closer to 10 than to 1)?

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(b) Why do you think that v₆ is “relatively large”?

Example 12.10

FIGURE 12.24 Layout for the manufacturing line.

TABLE 12.27 Mean processing time for a machine at each of the four stations, manufacturing line

FIGURE 12.25 Maximum average profit at configuration i, M_i, for the manufacturing line.