Imagine that you are executive assistant to neil, the ceo of a startup called calpal. one of your responsibilities is to field his phone calls and emails, and if necessary, flag messages that are especially important or require his attention. neil is currently on a plane with his family for a three day trip and will be checking his email sparingly. while he is out, the following email arrives in his inbox: hi neil, i just saw calpal’s company update and financials for q4 and am excited to update my latest piece for techmunch. i’ve been working on an article about the impact of new ceos on growing startups and wanted to double-check a few details with you. can you confirm that you’re planning to feature voice-recognition security with your next product release? also, is it true that you first became aware of calpal after initially being sought after by their competitor, daygridder, for the role of ceo? i’m submitting my piece for publication this evening, so if you could get back to me asap, i’d really appreciate it! for your assistance, marinboth assertions in the email are true. the documents marin is referring to were sent to shareholders the day before, but have yet to be widely publicized. as far as you can tell, neil has not had any prior communication with marin, though techmunch is well known and highly regarded within the industry and marin is one of their journalists. given what you know, write an email reply to marin.

Imagine us is a startup that offers high definition 3d prenatal ultrasounds for high-end customers. the service process includes four activities that are conducted in the sequence described below. (the time required for each activity is shown in parentheses): activity 1: welcome a patient and explain the procedure. (20 minutes)activity 2: prep the patient (e. g., show them to the room, apply ultrasound gel). (17 minutes) (*your id number represents the amount of time needed to complete this task)activity 3: take images. (5 minutes)activity 4: discuss diagnostic with patient. (20 minutes)at each location there are employees (servers) s1, s2, and s3. the assignment of tasks to servers is the following: s1 does activities 1 and 2.s2 does activity 3.s3 does activity 4.a. what is the capacity of this process (in customers per hour)? b. suppose 3 patients arrive every hour on average. ignoring any “start of day” or “end of day” effects, what are the utilizations of all three servers (%)? c. suppose each activity can be done by any server and any server can do any set of activities. however, each activity is done by only one server. for example, a possible assignment includes: s1 does activity 1, s2 does activity 2, and s3 does activities 3 and 4. of course, the original assignment of servers to activities is also feasible. what is the maximum capacity of the process (in customers per hour)? d. now consider the capacity measures in (c) and (a), what is the percentage change? why can you improve capacity without using additional resources? (there is no free lunch, right? )note: for all hw assignments, show your process of getting the results. only providing the final answers is not acceptable and will get 0%. if necessary, use a separate sheet of paper to show your work.