What was last year multi-factor productivity

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Question: Trek is a manufacturing company that produces high-end bicycles. Their prime road bike, the MadOne, can be fully customized through a program called Project One. Last year they rolled out 1,370 bikes which sold on average for $7,200 and used the following inputs as found in the table below:

Inputs	Amount	Cost ($)
Labor hours	15,500	25.75
OCLV Carbon (square feet)	1,400	10.08
Rubber (pounds)	3,025	3.61
Paint (gallons)	420	24.21
Energy (kWs)	11,352,609	0.11

What was last year's single-factor productivity for Trek in terms of rubber (not dollars)? (Round your answer to fourdecimal places.)

What was last year's single-factor productivity for Trek in terms of OCLV Carbon (input and output units, not dollars)? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)

What was last year's multi-factor productivity for Trek in terms of dollars? (In other words, how many dollars of revenue were generated for each dollar of input? Round your answer to two decimal places.)

Suppose in the coming year they expect their multi-factor productivity to increase by 8% over last year (what you just computed). What should be their multi-factor productivity in the coming year? (Round your answer to two decimal places.)

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