document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=105378>Question 105378</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Mr. Berg, who works twice as fast as Mr. Slocum receives s hourly rate of p[ay 1 1/2 times as much as Mr.Slocum. An efficiency expert calculatethat an article produced by Mr.Berg has a labor cost of 12 cents. what is the labor cost in cents of an articleproduced by Mr.Solcum? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "s much so let the cost for him = .5x<BR>\n" );
document.write( " To understand what's going on, let's assume some numbers here:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Say that B produces 100 items per hr @.12 per item, his pay should be $12/hr<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Since B makes 1.5 times S, then S's pay 12/1.5 = $8/hr<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "S only produces 50 of these item<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "At $8/hr the cost of his items: 8/50 = $0.16 is the labor cost for S<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "We should be able to do this by ratio (which is probably what they want)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Pay ratio = items ratio; S:B pay would be 1:1.5 or 2:3,<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "If they both made the same number of items we would have;<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cross multiply<BR>\n" );
document.write( "3*x = 2 * .12<BR>\n" );
document.write( "3x  = .24<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = .24/3<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = .08 cost per item, however he produced half as many as B did; that would<BR>\n" );
document.write( "double the cost, so actually it would be $.16 per item as we found above.<BR>\n" );
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