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Quiz: Exam # 1 Time Remaining: 00:33:15 Submit Qui 1 is Question: 50 pts 5015(3 complete) This Quiz: 240 pts possilb 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 750 boxes per day a) Before the change in work rules, the company's productivity per days boxes our ound your response to two de alpa es After the change, the new productivity level per day- boxes our round your response to two dec mal aces b Based on the changes made, the percent increase in productivity " % enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places) the new productivity- boxes hour (r dyour hour shifts if production is increased to 80 response to two decimal places). boxes per day with the three nter your answer in each of the answer boxes.

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a) before the change company's productivity = 500 boxes / (2*10 hour shifts) = 25.00 boxes /hour

After the change, new productivity level = 750 boxes/(3*8hour shifts) = 31.25 boxes/hour

b) percent increase in productivity = (31.25-25)/25 = 25.00%

c) The new productivity = 800/(3*8) = 33.33 boxes/hour

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