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Analyzing Production Decisions with Constant Returns to Scale

An olive oil production facility operates with a technology that has two inputs, labor and energy, and exhibits constant returns to scale. The manager wants to double the daily output and proposes doubling the number of workers while keeping the energy input the same. Explain why this strategy is unlikely to achieve the desired outcome. What change to the inputs would be required to reliably double the output?

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