The Following Information Relates to the Purchase of New Machine

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Essay

The following information relates to the purchase of new machine being considered. The new machine would enable the company to make 13,500 units per year.The current capacity of 12,000 is based on the maximum number of units that the old machine can produce.The company has had to turn down orders in the past few years due to this limit on capacity and estimates that it can sell as many of the product as it can produce.The sales price per unit of the product is $34.50.Determine the relevant data.Pose one addition consideration regarding this decision.

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Definitions:

Randomly Selected

A selection process where each member of a population has an equal chance of being chosen, ensuring unbiased sampling.

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Sweet baked treats that feature chocolate chips as a primary ingredient, mixed into a cookie dough.

Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.

Mean Number

The average value obtained by dividing the sum of all values in a dataset by the number of values.