Question

The Acme Aircraft Seat Company produces aircraft seats and is able to assemble 2 seats in 30 minutes using four workers. The single-factor productivity of the firm is ____ seats per labor hour.

Answer 1

Answer:

The single-factor productivity of the firm is 1 seat per labor hour.

Explanation:

The Single-factor productivity means the output when a unit of input is used. It is used to identify how many resources are used to produce a unit output.

The Acme Aircraft produce 1 aircraft seat per labor hour.

The single-factor productivity is calculated by formula :

Output/Input

No.  of  seats  produced / ( No. of workers * Hours worked  )                    

   

Single Factor Productivity =  2 Seats / 4 workers * 0.5 (30/60) hours