A staff assistant at NUBD Corporation recently determined that the first four units completed in a new manufacturing process took 1,000 hours to complete, or an average of 250 hours per unit. The assistant also found that when the cumulative output produced doubles, the average labor time declines by 25%. On the basis of this information, how many total hours would NUBD use if it produces 16 units

A staff assistant at NUBD Corporation recently determined that the first four units completed in a new manufacturing process took 1,000 hours to complete, or an average of 250 hours per unit. The assistant also found that when the cumulative output produced doubles, the average labor time declines by 25%. On the basis of this information, how many total hours would NUBD use if it produces 16 units

Practical Management Science

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Chapter4: Linear Programming Models

Section4.8: Data Envelopment Analysis (dea)

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