A fast-food restaurant serves hamburgers, cheeseburgers, and chicken sandwiches. The restaurant counts a cheeseburger as equivalent to 1.25 hamburgers and chicken sandwiches as 0.8 hamburger. Current employment is fi ve full-time employees who work a 40-hour week. If the restaurant sold 700 hamburgers, 900 cheeseburgers, and 500 chicken sandwiches in one week,
what is its productivity?
What would its productivity have been if it had sold the same number of sandwiches (2,100), but the mix was 700 of each type?

11.125 and 10.675

Explanation:

1. Hamburgers = 700

Cheese burgers = 900 * 1.25 = 1125.

Chicken sandwich = 0.8* 500 = 400

Hamburger = 700+1125+400 = 2225

Total input hours = 5* 40hrs = 200hrs

Productivity = output / input

= 2225 / 200 = 11.125.

2. Productivity had it sold same number of sandwiches 2100 but 700 for each.

Hamburgers = 700

Cheese burgers = 700 * 1.25 = 875.

Chicken sandwich = 0.8* 700 = 560

Hamburger = 700+875+560 = 2135

Total input hours = 5* 40hrs = 200hrs

Productivity = output / input

= 2135 / 200 = 10.675.

the correct answer is b.)

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two years ago, when picking flowers in the mountains back of yosemite valley; i found a book. it was blotted and storm-beaten, all of its outer pages were mealy and crumbly. the paper seemed to dissolve like the snow beneath which it had been buried, however, many of the inner pages were well preserved. and although all were more or less stained and torn; whole chapters were easily readable. this is the condition of the great open book of yosemite glaciers today, its granite pages have been torn and blurred by the same storms that wasted the castaway book.