Question: Learning Curves Your work for a large contract assembly plant.A new customer has come to you with a product they want 15 units of assembled.The
Learning Curves
Your work for a large contract assembly plant.A new customer has come to you with a product they want 15 units of assembled.The customer estimates that the time to assemble a unit is about 6 hours to assemble each one and is willing to pay you at that rate.You expect that the first unit will take 10 hours and the second one 8 hours.

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