Assignment:
Professor Cook teaches operations management at State University. She is scheduled to give her class of 34 students a final exam on the last day of exam week, and she is leaving town the same day. She is concerned about her ability to finish grading her exams. She estimates that with everything else she has to do she has only five hours to grade the exams. From past experience she knows the first exam will take her about 10 minutes to grade. She estimates her learning curve to be about 85%, and it will be fully realized after about 10 exams.
1. How long will it take Professor Cook to grade the 10th exam?
2. How long will it take to grade all 34 exams?