Practical Management Science
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There are 50 persons employed in harvesting rice. They will be harvesting 2-hectare rice farm. If they started harvesting 8 o’clock in the morning, what time would they finish the harvesting operation? (Assuming 60 persons-hr/ha).
A. 2:30
B. 2:40 A.M
C. 10:24 A.M
D. 9:42 A.M
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