Suppose That All Workers Value a 1% Reduction in the Workplace

question 50

Multiple Choice

Suppose that all workers value a 1% reduction in the workplace injury rate at $1,000.The cost of reducing the injury rate by 1% is $200 per worker.Firms currently pay $20,000 per year to workers,without any effort to improve safety.
Suppose new firms began to offer workers $19,500 and a 1% reduction in the injury rate.The total cost of hiring a worker to the existing firms is __________ and to the new firms it is __________.

• A)$20,000;$19,500
• B)$20,000;$18,500
• C)$19,800;$19,500
• D)$20,000;$19,700

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Definitions:

EOQ Problem

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Lot Size

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Cycle Counting

An inventory auditing process where a small subset of inventory is counted on a specific day without having to count the entire inventory.

Annual Physical Inventory

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