- Emily and her friends sell newspaper ads for the Bronc tosupplement their income each year. From the data below, determinewhich person is the most productive (ads per hour) and which personproduces the greatest ROI ($profit per $labor) under each of thepossible scenarios A and B?
| Emily (Freshman) | Yunjue (Junior) | Tianqi (Sophomore) | Lauren (Senior) |
# ads sold | 100 | 50 | 200 | 35 |
# hours spent | 40 | 15 | 85 | 10 |
total $revenue | $400 | $200 | $700 | $150 |
Productivity: (ads per hour) | | | | |
Productivity: ROI ($profit per $labor) | | | | |
Scenario A: Seniors get paid $12/hr, Juniors $10/hr, Sophomores$8/hr, and Freshmen $6/hr.
Scenario B: All are paid equally.
Note: it doesn't matter to theanswer what the pay is since they are all getting the samewage. Extra Credit: Why is that?
Remember: profit = revenue - costs. In this case,revenue is $ brought in from the sale of ads and costs are thelabor costs for the salesperson.
