Microeconomics: Principles, Problems, & Policies, 20th Edition

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0077660811
ISBN 13: 978-0-07766-081-9

Chapter 9 - Businesses and the Costs of Production - Problems - Page 219: 2

Answer

You should assign two workers per computer if you want to minimize the cost of inventorying a single item.

Work Step by Step

So 1.25 dollars per item = $\frac{(100 for computer + 25 for one worker for 1 hour)}{(100 items inventoried in 1 hour)}$ 1 dollars per item = $\frac{(100 for computer + 50 for one worker for 1 hour)}{(150 items inventoried in 1 hour)}$ 1.09 dollars per item = $\frac{(100 for computer + 75 for three worker for 1 hour)}{(160 items inventoried in 1 hour)}$ Hence you should assign two workers per computer if you want to minimize the cost of inventorying a single item.
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