Figure 24-1 Mrs. Brown's Bagel Company Manufactures Specialty Bagels. the Company Buys

question 1

Multiple Choice

Figure 24-1
Mrs. Brown's Bagel Company manufactures specialty bagels. The company buys flour in 50-kg bags that cost £25 each. The company uses 10,000 bags per year, and usage occurs evenly throughout the year.
The average cost to carry a 50-kg bag in inventory per year is £4, and the cost to place an order is £10.
The company works 250 days per year.
Mrs. Brown's Bagel Company manufactures specialty bagels. The company buys flour in 50-kg bags that cost £25 each. The company uses 10,000 bags per year, and usage occurs evenly throughout the year.
The average cost to carry a 50-kg bag in inventory per year is £4, and the cost to place an order is £10.
The company works 250 days per year.
-Refer to Figure 24-1. Brown's economic order quantity is

• A)354 bags.
• B)447 bags.
• C)224 bags.
• D)100 bags.

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Exponentially Distributed

A statistical distribution used to model the time between events in a Poisson process, describing the time until some specific event occurs.

Probability

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Poisson Model

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Exponential Distribution

A probability distribution used to model time until an event occurs, assuming events happen independently at a constant average rate.