Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach (4th Edition)
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Chapter 12, Problem 18RQ
- 18. When volunteers build a Habitat for Humanity house, it is found that the more houses that are completed, the faster each one can be finished since the volunteers become better trained and more efficient. A model that relates the building time and the number of homes completed can generally be given by
Where
t = time required to construct one house [days]
t0 = a constant related to (but not equal) the time required to build the first house
N = the number of houses completed [dimensionless]
ʋ = a constant related to the decrease in construction time as N increases
tM = another constant related to construction time
A team of volunteers has built several houses, and their construction time was recorded for four of those houses. The construction time was then plotted as a function of number of previously built houses and a mathematical model derived as shown in the following graph. Using this information, answer the following questions:
- a. What are the units of the constants 8.2, 3, and 2.8?
- b. If the same group continues building houses, what is the minimum time to construct one house that they can expect to achieve?
- c. How long did it take for them to construct the first house?
- d.
How many days (total) were required to build the first five houses?
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