Betty and Wilma are the only two cashiers employed at a retail store. Each of them works the same 40 hours per week. By manually entering the price of each product purchased into the cash register, Betty can check out 20 customers and Wilma can check out 30 customers per hour. The store owner replaces the old cash registers with new ones that automatically scan product prices into the register. With the new cash registers, Betty and Wilma can each check out 60 customers per hour. Their average labor productivity as a team before the new cash registers were introduced was ________ customers per hour and ________ customers per hour after the new machines were installed.

A. 50; 60
B. 50; 120
C. 1,000; 2,400
D. 25; 60


Answer: D

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