c) The percent change in multifactor productivity if Fok can reduce the energy bill by $950 per day without cutting production orchanging any other inputs =% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places).Note: calculate the new multifactor productivity to four decimal places before calculating the percentage change. Lillian Fok is president of Lakefront Manufacturing, a producer of bicycle tires. Fok makes 1,000 tires per day with the followingresources:Labor:Raw Material:Energy:Capital:425 hours per day @ $12.50 per hour21,000 pounds per day @ $1.00 per pound$5,000 per day$10,250 per dayD

Multifactor productivity = total outputs/(labor inputs+material inputs+energy inputs+capital inputs)

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