The First Unit of a Product Took 50 Hours to Build

question 14

Multiple Choice

The first unit of a product took 50 hours to build, and the learning curve is 80%. How long will it take to make the third unit? (Use at least three decimals in the exponent if you use the formula approach.)

• A) under 30 hours
• B) about 32 hours
• C) about 35 hours
• D) about 50 hours
• E) about 75 hours

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Contribution Margin Ratio

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Selling Price

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A statistical method used to determine the line of best fit by minimizing the sum of squares of the differences between observed and predicted values.

Squared Deviations

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