A factory employee spends two hours putting together a car part. A machine can do the same job in thirty minutes.

The machine takes 30 minutes, or 0.5 hour, while the employee takes 2 hours for the same job. Since 2 ÷ 0.5 = 4, the machine completes the job four times as quickly, so it is four times as time-effective as the employee.

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