White Tiger Electronics produces CD players using an automated assembly line process. The standard cost of CD players is $154 per unit (labor, $35; materials, $74; and overhead, $45).
The sales price is $275 per unit.
a. To achieve a 12 percent multifactor productivity improvement by reducing materials costs only, one needs to reduce the materials cost by____nothing percent. (Enter your response as a percent rounded to two decimal places.)
b. To achieve a 12 percent multifactor productivity improvement by reducing labor costs only, one needs to reduce the labor cost by___nothingpercent. (Enter your response as a percent rounded to two decimal places.)
c. To achieve a 12 percent multifactor productivity improvement by reducing overhead costs only, one needs to reduce the overhead cost by___nothingpercent. (Enter your response as a percent rounded to two decimal places.)