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A company that manufactures turbines of different sizes has beenordered to manufacture 30 large turbines. According to this order,within the next 5 months, the company should produce 2, 3, 5, 8 and12 turbines respectively. 30,000 man hours of direct labor wereused for the production of the first turbine. Based on pastexperiences from similar productions, the learning rate wasdetermined to be 90%. Accordingly, it is estimated that 27,000man-hours of direct labour is required for the manufacture of thesecond turbine. A worker works an average of 150 hours a month.Accordingly, during the next 5 months, estimate the number ofworkers to be employed for each month in order to grow theorder.The distribution of order quantities by month is given inTable 1.

Months

The amount of turbine that needs to beproduced every month

Cumulative Production Amount

(N)

1

2

2

2

3

5

3

5

10

4

8

18

5

12

30

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