Bardov & Co. was a cigarette-manufacturing company located at Rodeville, Georgia, in the mid-1880s. It employed 1000 skilled laborers who could roll 200 cigarettes per hour on average. In which of the following ways could the company have best increased its production efficiency and reduced its employment costs?

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Automatic cigarette-rolling machines would significantly increase production efficiency by producing cigarettes at a much faster rate than manual labor, and reduce employment costs by decreasing the need for a large workforce.