If a person performing a task has been achieving an 85 percent learning curve and if it took 1 minute to produce the first unit, the total time to produce 1,000 units will be 437.5 minutes.

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According to the 85 percent learning curve, the time required to produce the 1000th unit will be 0.32 times the time required to produce the first unit. Therefore, the total time to produce 1000 units can be calculated as:

Total time = (Time for 1st unit) x (1000) x (0.85 ^ log2(1000))
Total time = (1) x (1000) x (0.85 ^ 9.97)
Total time = 414.53 minutes

Therefore, the correct answer is B as the total time to produce 1000 units would be 414.53 minutes and not 437.5 minutes.

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