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The manager of a crew that installs wood floors has tracked the crew’s output over the past several weeks. Each worker works 40 hours per week, and earns $22 per hour. The wholesale cost of lumber to the company is $9 per square foot, and the company charges its customers $25 per square foot of flooring installed. Overhead rate is 100% a) using the best formula to determine labor productivity, calculate labor productivity for each of the weeks b) calculate multifactor productivity for each week using the dollar revenue of flooring installed in the numerator week crew size lumber used flooring installed week 1 4 480 420 week 2 3 371 325

The manager of a crew that installs wood floors has tracked the crew’s output over the past several weeks. Each worker works 40 hours per week, and earns $22 per hour. The wholesale cost of lumber to the company is $9 per square foot, and the company charges its customers $25 per square foot of flooring installed. Overhead rate is 100% a) using the best formula to determine labor productivity, calculate labor productivity for each of the weeks b) calculate multifactor productivity for each week using the dollar revenue of flooring installed in the numerator week crew size lumber used flooring installed week 1 4 480 420 week 2 3 371 325

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The manager of a crew that installs wood floors has tracked the crew’s output over the past several weeks. Each worker works 40 hours per week, and earns $22 per hour. The wholesale cost of lumber to the company is $9 per square foot, and the company charges its customers $25 per square foot of flooring installed. Overhead rate is 100%

a) using the best formula to determine labor productivity, calculate labor productivity for each of the weeks

b) calculate multifactor productivity for each week using the dollar revenue of flooring installed in the numerator

week crew size lumber used flooring installed
week 1 4 480 420
week 2 3 371 325 
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