You Are a Consultant Called in to Estimate the Costs

question 34

Multiple Choice

You are a consultant called in to estimate the costs after the employees learn how to do a job more efficiently by repetition of new product. You find a company can produce a product the first time at a cost of $5,000. If their 90 percent learning curve allows them to reduce their costs on each unit, what is the total cost of producing 100 units of the new product?

• A) $500,000
• B) $390,000
• C) $290,700
• D) $250,687
• E) $250,000

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