A winner from brianlululu, What on earth is this?

Brian, Brian, Brian! What on earth are we going to do with you? How can we help you if we cannot understand your question? Brianlululu (which is his screen name) has listed this in the vague category of Homework Help. Now we could take our friend Kirsten's approach to answering your question, Brian:


I like her answer a lot, frankly. Your question looks like one of those trick SAT questions or something, with multiple steps.

Let's see what we are missing. What is your total Gross Revenue for the product you are manufacturing. Right now you have labor and overhead costs, as well as your overall tax burden, (for the product) but I have no idea what it is your are using your labor for (or your overhead expenses, for that matter)

What I want to know is what is it that you are manufacturing. I wonder if you are making self-closing nose rings for our friend Audrina. What kind of widgets is he making at this factory?

The next question I have is about the wages that you are paying your employees? According to your problem 70% of your $200K for labor costs was for direct labor. ($140,000) Your problem then says that you used 20,800 labor hours....which comes out to paying your employees $6.73 an hour. Effective July 24, 2009, the federal minimum wage increases to $7.25 per hour. You sir are breaking the law in this word problem.

You must be running some sort of widget making, sweat shop! (and you must be stopped) If I were you, I would tell the teacher, who assigned this problem that you can't do it because it is unethical.