Productivity. The manager of a crew that installs wood floors has tracked the crew's output over the past several weeks. Each worker works 35 hours per week and earns $19 per hour. The wholesale cost of lumber to the company is foot, and the company charges its customers $21 per square foot of flooring installed. Week Crew Size Lumber Used (sq. ft Flooring Installed Sq ft 1 6 480 430 2 4 381 335 3 2 228 260 4 5 487 525 A. Calculate labor productivity for each of the weeks shown. B. Suppose that in addition to labor cost and wholesale lumber cost, the firm's overhead is 140% of its labor cost. Calculate multi-factor productivity for each week.

Amethod of allocating merchandise cost that assumes the first merchandise bought was the first merchandise sold is called the a. last-in, first-out method. b. first-in, first-out method. c. specific identification method. d. average cost method.

Cadbury has a chocolate factory in dunedin, new zealand. for easter, it makes two kinds of “easter eggs”: milk chocolate and dark chocolate. it cycles between producing milk and dark chocolate eggs. the table below provides data on these two products. demand (lbs per hour) milk: 500 dark: 200 switchover time (minutes) milk: 60 dark: 30 production rate per hour milk: 800 dark: 800 for example, it takes 30 minutes to switch production from milk to dark chocolate. demand for milk chocolate is higher (500lbs per hour versus 200 lbs per hour), but the line produces them at the same rate (when operating): 800 lbs per hour. a : suppose cadbury produces 2,334lbs milk chocolate and 1,652 lbs of dark chocolate in each cycle. what would be the maximum inventory (lbs) of milk chocolate? b : how many lbs of milk and dark chocolate should be produced with each cycle so as to satisfy demand while minimizing inventory?

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