Mike and Tom debone chicken breasts for Ted's Chicken Co. Mike is new and can only debone 60 chicken breasts per hour by hand, while Tom's experience allows him to debone 120 chicken breasts per hour by hand. Ted buys one new machine that can debone 100 chicken breasts per hour. Both Mike and Tom work the same 40 hours per week, but one of them is assigned to operate the machine instead of deboning the chicken breasts by hand. To obtain maximum average hourly productivity, ________ is assigned to use the machine and their combined average hourly productivity as a team is ________ chicken breasts.
A. Mike; 110
B. Tom; 80
C. Mike; 80
D. Tom; 110
Answer: A
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