1. A firm wants to position itself close to the Capacity corner. What does this imply about the consequences for the throughput time.

A) Little wait time relative to processing time

B) It will be higher than if the firm would position itself close to the Inventory corner

C) It will be close to zero  

D) High wait time relative to processing time

2. In a system with variability, when all resources cost more or less the same (by "cost," we mean cost per unit of capacity), you should:

A) Set the utilization around 50%

B) Set the utilization equal to 100%

C) unbalance the utilization

D) roughly balance the utilization