• A publishing company plans to replace its four proofreaders who look for errors in manuscripts with a new scanning machine and one proofreader in case the machine breaks down. Currently the...

• A publishing company plans to replace its four proofreaders who
look for errors in manuscripts with a new scanning machine and
one proofreader in case the machine breaks down. Currently the
proofreaders check 15 manuscripts every week between them. Each
is paid $80,000 per year. Hiring new scanning machine will cost
$5,000 each calendar month.
• How will this new system affect the proofreading department’s
productivity?