2.2 At Modern Lumber Inc, Moise Ngwenya the producer of apple crates sold to growers, has been ablewith his current equipment, to produce 240 crates per 100 logs. He currently purchases 100 logs perday, and each log requires 3 labor-hours to process. He believes that he can hire a professionalbuyer who can buy a better-quality log at the same cost. If this is the case, he can increase productionto 260 crates per 100 logs. His labour hours will increase by 8 hours per day. What will be the impacton productivity (measured in crates per labor-hour) if the buyer is hired?

Productivity is a measure by which we can evaluate the number of output produced per unit of input…

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