Question: Learning Curve Sharon Glessing, controller for Janson Company, has noticed that the company faces a 75 percent learning rate for its specialty design line.

Learning Curve Sharon Glessing, controller for Janson Company, has noticed that the company faces a 75 percent learning rate for its specialty design line. In planning the cost of the latest design, Sharon assumed that the first set of units would take 1,000 direct labor hours. She decided to use this information in budgeting for the cost of the total project, which would involve the manufacture of 16 sets. Direct labor is paid $40 per hour. Required: 1. Complete the table below showing results by row for total production of: one unit, two units, four units, eight units, and sixteen units. (Round hour answers to two significant digits.) (Round Cumulative Total Time answers to the nearest whole number.) Cumulative Number of Units 1 2 4 Cumulative Average Time per Unit in Hours 1,000 V 750 562.5 Cumulative Total Time: Labor Hours 1,000 1,500 2,250 3,375 5,063 8 16 421.88 316.41 2. What is the total labor cost if Janson Company makes eight sets? Sixteen sets? (Use the rounded answers in the subsequent computations). Total labor cost for eight sets 135,000 Total labor cost for sixteen sets, 202,500 X
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