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Leia o texto a seguir e responda às questões de 13 a 15.    


You want fries with that, we predict 


Technology anticipates fast-food customers' orders   

PITTSBURGH  --  Do  you  want  fries  with  that?  Never mind,  we  already  know.  A  Pittsburgh  startup,  HyperActive Technologies  Inc.,  is  testing  technology at area  fast-food  restaurants designed  to give kitchen workers a good  indication of what customers want before the hungry souls even get close enough to place an order.  
The system, known as "HyperActive Bob," is in place in several restaurants around Pittsburgh in a primitive form: It tells employees when they are about to get busy, even how much food to put on the grill.  



The system uses rooftop cameras that monitor traffic entering a restaurant's parking lot and drive-thru. Currently, the system is all about volume: If a minivan pulls in, there's apt to be more than one mouth to feed.  


By this time next year, HyperActive Technologies expects to have in place software that keys on the type of vehicle entering  the parking  lot  to determine whether  the  customers  they bear are  inclined  to order,  say, a  burger over a  chicken 
sandwich.  


As it  is,  the currently installed  technology --  the predictive system  is only running simulations for now -- has wowed some seasoned veterans.  


"I've been a manager  for 28  years,"  said Pat Currie, a manager at a McDonald's  in Chippewa Township.  "It's  the most impressive thing I've ever seen."  


Hyper ActiveBob is now at seven area McDonald's, a Burger King and a Taco Bell.  
It was  installed at Currie's  restaurant  two years ago. Since  then, waste has been cut  in half and wait  times at  the drive-thru have been reduced by 25 to 40 seconds per consumer, Currie said -- an eternity in the fast-food industry.       
          
  (Newsweek, September 7, 2004) 



Questão 13

O texto trata de:
 
a)  uma  tecnologia capaz de prever o que os clientes
de  um  restaurante  vão  pedir  antes  de  eles
fazerem seus pedidos.

b)  uma  tecnologia de controle do volume de vendas
estipulado  para  as  franquias  de  alguns
restaurantes.

c)  um sistema de segurança que usa tecnologia para
controlar o estacionamento de restaurantes.

d)  um  sistema  de  entrega  de  restaurantes  do  tipo
delivery  muito  dinâmico  devido  ao  uso  de  alta
tecnologia.

e)  um software de  treinamento usado para  tornar os
funcionários  de  restaurantes  mais  ativos  e
eficientes.  


Questão 14

De acordo com o  texto, a  instalação de "HyperActive
Bob" em um restaurante causou:

a)  a  redução  à  metade  do  tempo  do  serviço  de
entrega do tipo delivery.

b)  a redução do desperdício à metade.

c)  a  redução  para  25  a  40  segundos  do  tempo  de
espera para o atendimento às mesas.

d)  a  redução  à  metade  da  criminalidade  no
estacionamento.

e)  um  aumento  nas  vendas  de  hambúrgueres  e
sanduíches de frango.    


Questão 15

Assinale a alternativa em que o trecho "to determine whether the customers they bear are inclined to order", no 4º parágrafo do texto, é reescrito de forma adequada e sem prejuízo de significado.

a)  to determine when the customers they bear are inclined to order.

b)  to determine which the customers they bear are inclined to order.

c)  to determine what the customers they bear are inclined to order.

d)  to determine if the customers they bear are inclined to order.

e)  to determine how the customers they bear are inclined to order.