7.5.1 [5] <7.2>
You are trying to bake 3 blueberry pound cakes. Cake ingredients are as follows:
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
4 large eggs 
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 
1 1/2 cups flour 
1 cup blueberries
The recipe for a single cake is as follows:
Step 1: Preheat oven to 325°F (160°C). Grease and flour your cake pan.     
Step 2: In large bowl, beat together with a mixer butter and sugar at  medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, vanilla, salt and nutmeg.  Beat until thoroughly blended. Reduce mixer speed to low and add flour,  1/2 cup at a time, beating just until blended.     
Step 3: Gently fold in blueberries. Spread evenly in prepared baking pan.  Bake for 60 minutes.
 Your job is to cook 3 cakes as efficiently as possible. Assuming  that you only have one oven large enough to hold one cake, one large bowl, one  cake pan, and one mixer, come up with a schedule to make three cakes as quickly as  possible. Identify the bottlenecks in completing this task.
 
 
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