A team of five laborers in Indonesia working in a garment factory divides the task of making men's dress shirts for export to the United States. Each laborer works 10 hours a day, six days a week, and is paid the Indonesian minimum wage of $2.50 per day. In one week, the team can make 500 shirts. The shirts sell for $40 each in the United States. a. What are the labor costs for each shirt? b. How much would it cost to pay five workers working at the U.S. federal minimum wage to do the same job in the same amount of time?
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Check the wording. It 5 men are divided, how many make shirts? and how many "others"? What is US federal wage? Knowing this its addition multiplication of reals. Its arithmatic only. You are possibly confused with these 2 questions.
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10 x 6 x 2.50 is the total labor cost divide 500 by this number for cost per shirt. I do not know the min wage in the US but do the math the same way.
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a. Labor cost for each shirt: = ($2.50/day * 6 days * 5 laborers)/500 shirts = $75.00 per week/500 shirts = $0.15/shirt Answer: labor cost per shirt is $0.15 or 15 cents. b. Labor cost in the U.S. (assume rate per day is r): = r(6 * 5) = 30r Answer: 30r. I applied this formula because I am not aware of the U.S. federal minimum wage. To apply the formula, assume that rate per hour of work is $10.00: = 30($10.00) = $300.00
