michelle's business produces ceramic cups using labor, clay, and a kiln. she produces cups using a fixed proportion of labor and clay, but regardless of how many cups she produces, she uses only one kiln. she can manufacture 3030 cups a day with one worker and 4848 with two workers. does her production process illustrate decreasing returns to scale or a diminishing marginal returns

The revenues of a company increased by 39% in year one and decreased 22% in year two. what is the overall change over the two-year period?

The management at a pesticide manufacturing company has observed a decline in quality measures. the managers ask robin, the firm's hr manager, to investigate whether training might solve the problem. robin conducts needs assessment and recommends a training plan. which of the following conditions would most likely have been an observation during robin's person analysis?

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1