The company that makes shipping boxes for a meal prep service has seen an increase in demand over the past 3 months. Currently, the company can make 600 boxes per day to ship the ingredients and food to their customer base, working two 9-hour shifts. Due to the demand, the operations manager has decided to increase the number to three seven-hour shifts instead. The decision allows the company to now make 800 boxes per day. (Round to two decimal)

a) Calculate the company’s productivity before and after the change in shifts.

b) What is the percentage of increase in productivity?

c) If production is increased to 900 boxes per day with the two 9-hour shifts compared to your answer in (a), what is the new productivity?

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