Suppose That We Are in a Condition of "Stuck" Prices

question 11

Essay

Suppose that we are in a condition of "stuck" prices so that the price of nails will not go above or below $2/kg.Further suppose that nail factories have been built on a business plan designed to deliver 6,000 kg/week.How many nails will be sold in a market in which demand (which includes a modest amount of inventory) is characterized by: (a) P = 5 - 0.5Q, (b) P = 6 - 0.5Q, and (c) P = 4 - 0.5Q, where P is in $/kg and Q is in thousands of kg/week? In each case, what happens to inventory.

Understand the conditions under which the finite population correction factor should be used.

Grasp the relationship between sample distribution characteristics, such as the t-distribution, and their impact on statistical analysis.

Understand the principles behind estimators being unbiased and their importance in statistical analysis.

Understand how to use the CONFIDENCE.NORM function in Excel to calculate confidence intervals for population means.

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