In ABC Printing, Queen's Black Is a Popular Input with an Annual

question 12

Multiple Choice

In ABC Printing, Queen's black is a popular input with an annual demand of 50,000 gallons. Ordering cost of $50 per order, and the holding cost is $5 per unit per year; the economic order quantity is 1000. Hence during the year, they used 1000 as the order quantity. An audit of the costs revealed that the true ordering cost was only $25 and the true holding cost was $10 per gallon per year. The correct order quantity would have been 500. How much did ABC lose due to incorrect cost information during the year?

• A) 0
• B) 1250
• C) -1250
• D) 500
• E) Cannot be found without additional information.

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