Question

Hoosier Manufacturing operates a production shop that is designed to have the lowest unit production cost at an output rate of 145 units per hour. In the month of July, the company operated the production line for a total of 265 hours and produced 30,400 units of output.What was its capacity utilization rate for the month?

Answer 1

Answer:

79.1%

Explanation:

Hoosier manufacturing operates a production shop that is modelled to have the lowest unit of production

The output rate is 145 units per hour

In the month of July the company operated the production line for 265 hours

30,400 units of output were produced

Therefore, the capacity utilization rate can be calculated as follows

= 30,400 units/265 hours ×145

= 30,400/38,425

= 0.791×100

= 79.1%

Hence the capacity utilization rate for the month is 79.1%