3. Aztec Furnishings makes hand-crafted furniture for sale in its retail stores. The furniture maker has recently installed a new assembly process, including a new sander and polisher. With this new system, production has increased to 90 pieces of furniture per day from the previous 60 pieces of furniture per day. The number of defective items produced has dropped from 12 pieces per day to 5 per day. The production facility operates strictly eight hours per day. Evaluate the change in productivity for Aztec using the new assembly process. Please show your work and any formulas utilized.

77.08%

Explanation:

Calculation to Evaluate the change in productivity for Aztec using the new assembly process

Using this formula

Change in productivity =[( Increased in production- Dropped in defective items produced)-(Previous pieces of furniture per day-Dropped in defective items produced)]/-(Previous pieces of furniture per day-Dropped in defective items produced)*100

Let plug in the formula

Change in productivity =[(90 pieces per day-5 per day)-(60 pieces per day-12 pieces per day )/(60 pieces per day-12 pieces per day) *100

Change in productivity =(85-48)/48*100

Change in productivity =37/48*100

Change in productivity =0.7708*100

Change in productivity =77.08%

Therefore the change in productivity for Aztec using the new assembly process will be 77.08% Increase in productivity.

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