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Billy Bob is the sole proprietor of Billy Bob's Smokers and is afabricator of competition-level, wood-fired smokers. Billy Bob isintroducing a home-grade version of his smoker and has a contractwith a local distributor to produce and deliver 50 units for saleduring the summer. More specifically, Billy Bob is required todeliver the first 6 units in May, the next 10 units in June, 14more in July, and the remaining 20 in August. The first unitproduced for delivery in May required 40 hours of labor and thesecond unit took 30 hours of labor to complete. Assuming a learningrate can be established based on the first two production units,will Billy Bob be able to meet his contractual obligations? BillyBob works 160 hours per month. You must show all work used toanswer the question. That is, provide the number of labor hoursthat Billy Bob will consume in each month to produce the number ofsmokers indicated.

Provide (and round as necessary) all numeric values outto four decimal places. In the “Obligation Met” cells, type: Yes orNo

Estimated Learning Rate

Month

Learning Factor

Hours Needed

Obligation Met?

May

June

July

August

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