A Company Is Preparing a Bid on a Government Contract

question 128

Multiple Choice

A company is preparing a bid on a government contract for 40 units of a certain product. The operations manager estimates the assembly time required for the first two units to be 10.4 hours and 8.8 hours.If a contract for 30 units is canceled after the first 20 units, approximately how much of the expected total direct labor will have been expended to that point?

• A)73 percent
• B)55 percent
• C)61 percent
• D)50 percent
• E)It is impossible to say without additional information.

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Definitions:

Ownership

The state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which can be an object, land/property, or intellectual property.

Control

In the context of business, control refers to the power to govern the financial and operating policies of an entity so as to obtain benefits from its activities, often achieved through ownership of more than half of the voting rights or otherwise.

Dividends

Payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members, usually derived from profits.