Question

Chuck Sox makes wooden boxes in which to ship motorcycles. Chuck and his three employees invest a total of 40 hours per day making the 200 boxes. ​a) Their productivity​ = nothing ​boxes/hour ​(round your response to two decimal​ places). Chuck and his employees have discussed redesigning the process to improve efficiency. Suppose they can increase the rate to 400 boxes per day. ​b) Their new productivity​ = nothing ​boxes/hour ​(round your response to two decimal​ places). ​c) The unit increase in productivity is nothing ​boxes/hour ​(round your response to two decimal​ places). ​d) The percentage LOADING... increase in productivity is nothing​% ​(enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal​ places).

Answer 1

Answer:

a) 5 boxed -per-hour

b) the increase in outpu to 400 will increase productivity to 10 boxes

c) increase in 5 boxed per hour

d) it increase by 100%

Explanation:

chunk and three employees 40 hours (ten hours each) to produce 200 boxes.

a) productivity:

output / hours

200 / 40 = 5

b) new productivity:

output/ hours

400 / 40 = 10

c) new productivity - old productivity = change in productivity

10 boxes per hour - 5 boxes per hour = 5 boxes per hour

d) percent:

increase / base productivity x 100

5 boxes per hour /   5 boxes per hour  x 100 = 100%