<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:medium;line-height:inherit;font-family:'proxima-nova-soft', sans-serif;border:0px;color:rgb(37,37,37);">A production process consists of a three-step operation. The scraprate is 11 percent for the first step and 12 percent for the othertwo steps.<br/></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:medium;line-height:inherit;font-family:'proxima-nova-soft', sans-serif;border:0px;color:rgb(37,37,37);"><strong style="border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;">a.</strong>If the