Lake Charles Seafood makes 500 wooden pack-ing boxes for fresh seafood per day, working in two 10-hourshifts. Due to increased demand, plant managers have decidedto operate three 8-hour shifts instead. The plant is now able toproduce 650 boxes per day.a) Calculate the company’s productivity before the change inwork rules and after the change.b) What is the percentage increase in productivity?c) If production is increased to 700 boxes per day, what is thenew productivity?

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