In: Advanced Math
Billy Bob is the sole proprietor of Billy Bob's Smokers and is a fabricator of competition-level, wood-fired smokers. Billy Bob is introducing a home-grade version of his smoker and has a contract with a local distributor to produce and deliver 50 units for sale during the summer. More specifically, Billy Bob is required to deliver the first 6 units in May, the next 10 units in June, 14 more in July, and the remaining 20 in August. The first unit produced for delivery in May required 40 hours of labor and the second unit took 30 hours of labor to complete. Assuming a learning rate can be established based on the first two production units, will Billy Bob be able to meet his contractual obligations? Billy Bob works 160 hours per month. You must show all work used to answer the question. That is, provide the number of labor hours that Billy Bob will consume in each month to produce the number of smokers indicated.
Provide (and round as necessary) all numeric values out to four decimal places. In the “Obligation Met” cells, type: Yes or No
Estimated Learning Rate |
Month |
Learning Factor |
Hours Needed |
Obligation Met? |
May |
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June |
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July |
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August |