Darcy has a pie shop. She makes fruit pies, cream pies, chocolate pies

QUESTION

Darcy has a pie shop. She makes fruit pies, cream pies, chocolate pies, pecan pies, even peppermint pies.

She mixes the ingredients in small batches, and when one batch is baking, she cleans the mixer, bowls, and spoons and then mixes another kind of pie filling or dough. Darcy and her employees work around the clock seven days a week. Which of the following describes Darcy’s processes?
A) synthetic transformation, continuous process
B) synthetic transformation, intermittent process
C) analytic transformation, assembly line process
D) analytic transformation, intermittent process
E) synthetic transformation, assembly line process

ANSWER

Answer: B
Explanation: B) Darcy combines ingredients, which makes her process a synthetic transformation. She stops the process frequently to clean the equipment and to begin again with different ingredients. That makes the process intermittent. Darcy and her employees do all the steps individually, which means there is no assembly line process in place.