Livingston Fabrication has created the following aggregate plan for the next five months: August September November 1,500,000 1,500,000 3,000,000 Forecasted Demand (units of finished goods): Production Plan: 2,000,000 a. 64 b. none 2,000,000 c. 112 d. 224 October 2,000,000 Assume that Livingston will have nothing in inventory at the end of July. Livingston employs 1,000 production assembly workers and it takes one production assembly worker 5 minutes to assemble one unit of finished good. (The unit is complete at that point.) Each production assembly worker can provide 150 hours of assembly time a month without requiring overtime pay. e. 145 2,000,000 2,000,000 Livingston wants to complete this plan without working any overtime in assembly. Logically, how many additional production assembly workers should Livingston hire to start in August? December 500,000 2,000,000

Livingston Fabrication has created the following aggregate plan for the next five months: August September November 1,500,000 1,500,000 3,000,000 Forecasted Demand (units of finished goods): Production Plan: 2,000,000 a. 64 b. none 2,000,000 c. 112 d. 224 October 2,000,000 Assume that Livingston will have nothing in inventory at the end of July. Livingston employs 1,000 production assembly workers and it takes one production assembly worker 5 minutes to assemble one unit of finished good. (The unit is complete at that point.) Each production assembly worker can provide 150 hours of assembly time a month without requiring overtime pay. e. 145 2,000,000 2,000,000 Livingston wants to complete this plan without working any overtime in assembly. Logically, how many additional production assembly workers should Livingston hire to start in August? December 500,000 2,000,000

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