HW 1 NO LATE SUBMISSIONS. NO EXCEPTIONS 1. A local university is considering changes to its class structure in an effort to increase professor productivity. The old schedule had each professor teaching 5 classes per week, with each class meeting an hour per day on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Each class contained 20 students. The new schedule has each professor teaching only 3 classes, but each class meets daily (Mon.-Fri.) for an hour. New classes contain 50 students. a. Calculate the labor productivity for the initial situation (students/hour). b. Calculate the labor productivity for the schedule change (students/hour). c. Are there any ethical considerations that should be accounted for? d. Suppose that each teacher also is required to have 2 hours of Office Hours each day he/she taught class. Is the schedule change a productivity increase? 2. A process produces 5000 units of output that yield $6 per unit. Resources contributed to this output are 200 hours of labor at $15 per hour, materials at $700 and overhead at $300. What is the labor productivity? a. 20 units per hour b. 25 units per hour c. 30 units per hour d. 40 units per hour 3. It takes the Blacksburg