7 If a drywall guy has to hang 400 sheets of drywall and his

7. If a drywall guy has to hang 400 sheets of drywall and his productivity rate is 0.296. How many labor hours are required?

Solution

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Labor productivity is the value of goods and services produced in a period of time, divided by the hours of labor used to produce them. In other words, labor productivity measures output produced per unit of labor.

SO productivity = .296 = (total sheets to hang)/(time take in hours to hang all the sheets)

                => .296 = 400/t

=> t = 400/.296 = 1351.35 hours

hence the drywall guy would take 1351.35 hours to hang 400 sheets of drywall.