A Company Is About to Develop and Then Market a New

question 75

Essay

A company is about to develop and then market a new product. It wants to build a simulation model for the entire process, and one key uncertain input is the development time, which is measured in an integer number of months. For each of the scenarios in the questions below, choose an "appropriate" distribution, together with its parameters, and explain your choice.
-Company experts believe the development time will be from 5 to 9 months, but they have absolutely no idea which of these will result.

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Definitions:

Inputs

The resources such as labor, materials, and capital that are used in the production process to create goods and services.

AFC

Acronym that stands for Average Fixed Cost, the fixed costs of production divided by the quantity of output produced.

ATC

Average Total Cost, which is the total cost of production divided by the number of goods produced.

Output

The total amount of goods or services produced by a company, industry, or economy within a specific period.