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It took a contractor 5000 hours to manufacture their first unit of an item. If the contractor expects to achieve a 94% unit learning curve, how many hours would be required to manufacture units 75-100? (Use the tables provided in the lesson).

A) 87,245

B) 682,979

C) 710,683

D) 83,844

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Solution describes the steps to calculate the time needed to manufacture the product in the given range.

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