MHB Do I weight this? Do some sort of average?

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The discussion focuses on calculating the time efficiency of processing materials in five boxes, each containing a different number of bags. The user seeks to create a comparison chart that normalizes the time taken for three steps—item removal, rebagging, and consolidation—by calculating the time spent per bag. For Box 1, with 60 bags, the time per bag for each step is derived by dividing the total hours by the number of bags, resulting in a time of 2.5 minutes per bag for step 1. This method can be applied to all boxes to determine if the number of bags affects the overall processing time.

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I have 5 boxes and I am displaying the amount of hours it takes to complete 3 different steps with the materials inside said boxes (you don't need it, but its item removal, rebagging, and consolidation). However, there are different amount of bags inside each box, and I need to make a comparison chart that can somehow weight the time so that amount of bags in each box is taken out of the equation. Basically, I need to see if the amount of bags/box is really contributing to increased time or not by removing bag amounts and making them all proportional somehow.

In the 5 boxes there is a total of 683 bags. Box 1= 60, B2=138, B3=99, B4=287, and B5=99. For Box 1, step 1 took 2.5 hours, step 2 took 6.66 hours, and step 3 took 1.3 hours.

If anyone can help with the first box and explain I can do all the rest, I'm just not sure how to do this...
 
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I am not sure this is what you need, but you can divide the time each step took by the number of bags in box 1 to see time per bag. So, step 1 takes
\[
\frac{2.5\,\text{hours} \cdot 60\frac{\text{minutes}}{\text{hour}}}{60\,\text{bags}} = 2.5\frac{\text{minutes}}{\text{bag}}
\]
Then you can compare time per bag between box 1 and box 2, for example.
 

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