A company has three machines and each can produce 200,000 products per year. Each machine requires two operators. The forecast demand for next year is 150, 000 products. What would be the machine requirement for the next year?Group of answer choices0.501.500.750.252.25
Question
A company has three machines and each can produce 200,000 products per year. Each machine requires two operators. The forecast demand for next year is 150, 000 products. What would be the machine requirement for the next year?Group of answer choices0.501.500.750.252.25
Solution
To answer this question, we first need to determine how many products one machine can produce and then compare it to the forecasted demand.
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Each machine can produce 200,000 products per year.
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The forecasted demand for next year is 150,000 products.
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To find out how many machines are needed, we divide the forecasted demand by the number of products one machine can produce.
So, 150,000 (forecasted demand) divided by 200,000 (products per machine) equals 0.75.
Therefore, the machine requirement for the next year would be 0.75. This means that less than one full machine's capacity will be needed to meet the forecasted demand. However, in practical terms, you can't have 0.75 of a machine, so you would need 1 machine to meet the demand.
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