Textbook Excerpt:
Whitney wanted to speed up the making of guns by having machines manufacture each part. All machine-made parts would be alike—for example, one trigger would be identical to another. Identical parts would fit together with all other parts, and gunsmiths would not have to build each gun from scratch. Interchangeable parts would save time and money.
Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
Based on this excerpt from the text, in what 2 ways would interchangeable parts best help businesses?
(2 points)
Responses
Parts made by machines could be made more cheaply.
Parts made by machines could be made more cheaply.
Businesses' costs could increase to pay for the machinery.
Businesses' costs could increase to pay for the machinery.
Customers had to wait longer to obtain the new parts made by machines.
Customers had to wait longer to obtain the new parts made by machines.
Machines could quickly manufacture parts that were previously made more slowly by hand.
Based on the passage, the two ways in which interchangeable parts would best help businesses are:
1. Parts made by machines could be made more cheaply.
2. Machines could quickly manufacture parts that were previously made more slowly by hand.