Good afternoon sir, thank you so much time for your help. I have a question I find difficult to calculate even when the answer was given to me and I follow the steps with my calculator. I get a different answer. The calculator is a BA 11 Plus Texas Instruments. You will find the question below;
The total time for the first 16 batches of 100 units was 9,000 hours. What was the actual learning rate closest to (to the nearest %)?
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Dear tutor, I am sorry but it seemed to be interesting for me
Cumulative---------Cumulative -----------------Cumulative ---Incremental---Incremental-Incremental
production unit------average time per unit-----total hours---------unit-------total hours----average p.u
1-----------------------say for example 5hrs------------------------------1
2-----------------------------------5x------------------------------------------1
4------------------------------------5x^2--------------------------------------2
8--------------------------------------5x^3----------------------------------4
16---------------------------------------5x^4---------90000---------------8
then you can find actual rate, I think average time per unit should be given in this situation because how it is possible to find without average time 1st batch.
5y ago#2Tarrell:
I don't know where you found this question, but either you have not typed out the whole question or there is a typing mistake in your book.
It is impossible to calculate the learning rate on the information that you have typed because we need to know how long the first batch took.
If we know the time for the first batch, then since the average time per batch when we make 16 batches is 9,000/16 = 562.5 hours, the learning rate will be
the fourth root of 562.5 / (time for the first batch).
Your calculator will probably have a button to calculate any root (although a fourth root is the same as taking the square root twice).
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