1. Each time Mayberry Nursery hires a new employee, it must wait for some period of time before the employee can meet production standards. Management is unsure of the learning curve in its operations but it knows in general the first job completed by a new employee requires 30 hours. Also, Mayberry Nursery knows that the total time to complete the first two jobs is 54 hours. Assume all jobs to be equal in size.

# of Jobs Hours for Xth Unit Cumulative Total Cumulative Avg. Time per Unit

1 30 30 30

2 24 54 27

Q1: Assuming the incremental unit-time method, the learning-curve percentage is _____________

Q2: Assuming the cumulative average-time method, the learning-curve percentage is _____________

Q3: Assuming the cumulative average-time method, the cumulative average time per unit for a new employee to complete 8 units is _____________

Q4: Assuming the cumulative average-time method, the total time for a new employee to complete 8 units is _____________