You'd like to own your own business, and you love to work with your hands, preferably outdoors. that'swhy a lawn and garden maintenance business is the perfect match for your abilities and interests, and you'reready to start! which type of distribution channel will work best for launching your new service business, andwhy?
a. because you are marketing your services in the b2b environment, a short distribution channel worksbest for your new business. b. due to the concentrated geographic location of your potential customers, you will only need oneintermediary in your distribution channel who can facilitate the exchange process. c. you'd like to establish and maintain personal relationships with your clients, so you should set up ashort distribution channel without intermediaries. d. because of the challenges involved in identifying customers who actually need your lawn care services, you will need to engage the services of several sales and marketing intermediaries who can assist you.

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.