Question

A work group of 20 workers in a certain month produced 8600 units of output working8 hr/day for 21 days. (a) What is the labor productivity ratio for this month?

(b) In the next month, the same work group produced 8000 units but there were 22 workdays in the month and the size of the work group was reduced to 14 workers. What is the labor productivity ratio for this second month? (c) What is the productivity index using the first month as a base?

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