You have determined that a 60 percent learning curve is appropriate for a task. If your initial timing of person performing that task was 35 minutes and if you need the task performed 1,000 times, how many minutes of work will be required?
A) 3,500.0 minutes
B) 1,062.5 minutes
C) 705.25 minutes
D) 450.5 minutes
E) 220.3 minutes

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The learning curve effect means that each time the cumulative production doubles, the time per unit decreases by the learning rate. For a 60% learning curve, the time for the 1,000th unit can be calculated using the formula: Tn = T1 * n^(log b/log 2), where T1 is the time for the first unit, n is the number of units, and b is the learning rate. Calculating this gives approximately 705.25 minutes.

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