a.

Productivity increased when you moved from one worker to two, but it began to decrease
as you added additional workers. Three workers had a lower productivity than two
workers, and six workers had the lowest productivity of all (at one stapler).
Worker
s
1
2
3
4
5
6

Output
0.5
3.5
4.5
4.8
5.2
5.5

Productiv
ity
0.50
1.75
1.50
1.20
1.04
0.92

b. When there were three workers, additional staplers increased overall productivity.
However, it increased more significantly from one stapler to two than it did from two
staplers to three, signifying the concept of diminishing returns for productivity ie
Stapler
s
1
2
3
4

Output
4.5
5.5
6

Productiv
ity
1.50
1.83
2.00

%
change
22.22
9.09

c. The combination of three workers and three staplers and the combination of two workers
and two staplers had the highest productivity level of 2.0.
Worker
s
1
2
3
4
5
6

1
Stapler
0.5
3.5
4.5

Productiv
ity
0.50
1.75
1.50

5.5

0.92

2
Staplers

Productiv
ity

3
Staplers

Productiv
ity

4
5.5
6.5

2.00
1.83
1.63

2.00

1.33