Suppose that you are the assigning costs to a major project to be undertaken this year by your firm, University Applications. One particular coding process involves many labor-hours, but highly redundant work. You anticipate a total of 200,000 labor-hours to complete the first iteration of the coding and a learning curve rate of 70%. You are attempting to estimate the cost of the twentieth (steady state) iteration of this coding sequence.
Based on this information and a $60 per hour labor rate, what would you expect to budget as
A. The cost of the twentieth iteration?
B. The cost of the fortieth iteration?