Lake Charles Seafood makes 500 wooden packing boxes for fresh seafood per? day,

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Lake Charles Seafood makes 500 wooden packing boxes for fresh seafood per? day, working in two? 10-hour shifts. Due to increased? demand, plant managers have decided to operate three? 8-hour shifts per day instead. The plant is now able to produce 700 boxes per day.

Lake Charles Seafood makes 500 wooden packing boxes for fresh seafood per day, working in two 10-hour shifts. Due to increased demand, plant managers have decided to operate three 8-hour shifts per day instead. The plant is now able to produce 700 boxes per day. a) Before the change in work rules, the company's productivity per day boxes our round your response to decimal p aces After the change, the new productivity level per day boxes/hour (round your response to two decimal places) b) Based on the changes made, the percent increase in productivity-| % (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places) c) If production is increased to 800 boxes per day (with the three 8-hour shifts), the new productivityboxes/hour (round your response to two decimal places)

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a)

per day = 500 boxes

2 , 10 hours were operating = 10*2 = 20 hours per day

productivity = daily production/ no. of hours

= 500/20

= 25 boxes/hour

after the change:

new production = 700 boxes

3, 8 hour shifts = 3*8 = 24 hours per day production

productivity = 700/24

= 29.17 boxes/hour

b) % increase in productivity = 100*(new productivity - old productivity)/old productivity

= 100*(29.17 - 25)/25

= 100*0.1668

= 16.68%

c) production = 800

3, 8hour shifts = 24 hours

productivity = 800/24 = 33.33

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