Providence Assessment Center screens and trains employees for a computer assembly firm in Boston. The progress of all trainees is tracked and those not showing the proper progress are moved to less demanding programs. By the tenth repetition trainees must be able to complete the assembly task in 1 hour or less. Susan Sweaney has just spent 6 hours on the fourth unit and 5 hours completing her eighth ?unit, while another? trainee, Julie? Burgmeier, took 4 hours on the third and 3 hours on the sixth unit.
a) Time required by Susan for the fifteenth ?unit: (Note: You must round all intermediate calculations to at least three decimal places before proceeding with subsequent? calculations.)
15th unit ______ hours. (Round your response to 2 decimal places)
Based on the achieved time for the tenth unit by Susan and the goal of 1 hour or? less, your recommendation would be that Susan should _____ forward. (continue/not continue)
c) Time required by Julie for the fifteenth ?unit: ?(Note: You must round all intermediate calculations to at least three decimal places before proceeding with subsequent? calculations.)
15th unit _____ hours. (Round your response to 2 decimal places)
Based on the achieved time for the tenth unit by Julie and the goal of 1 hour or? less, your recommendation would be that Julie should ________ forward. (continue/not continue)