Brown's, a local bakery, is worried about increased costs particularly energy. Last year's records can provide a fairly good estimate of the parameters for this year. Wende Brown, the owner, does notbelieve things have changed much, but she did invest an additional $3,000 for modifications to the bakery's ovens to make them more energy efficient. The modifications were supposed to make theovens at least 20% more efficient. Brown has asked you to check the energy savings of the new ovens and also to look over other measures of the bakery's productivity to see if the modificationswere beneficial. You have the following data to work withProduction (dozen)Labor (hours)Capital Investment (5)Energy (BTU)Last Year1,60034015,0003,000Now1,60032018,0002,800Energy productivity increase=% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places and include a minus sign if necessary)Capital productivity increase=% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places and include a minus sign if necessary)Labor productivity increase=% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places and include a minus sign if necessary).

We can determine the productivity increase using the formula below:Productivity increase means the…

Energy (BTU) 2.800 Energy productivity increase=% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places and include a minus sign if necessary) Capital productivity increase=% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places and include a minus sign if necessary) Labor productivity increase=% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places and include a minus sign if necessary) 3,000

Energy (BTU) 2.800 Energy productivity increase=% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places and include a minus sign if necessary) Capital productivity increase=% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places and include a minus sign if necessary) Labor productivity increase=% (enter your response as a percentage rounded to two decimal places and include a minus sign if necessary) 3,000

Essentials Of Investments

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