A Fast Food Restaurant Just Leased a New Freezer and Food

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Essay

A fast food restaurant just leased a new freezer and food fryer for three years. The service contract for the freezer offers unlimited repairs for a fee of $125 a year plus a $35 service charge for each repair needed. The restaurant’s research suggested that during a given year 80% of these freezers need no repairs, 11% needed to be serviced once, 5% twice, 4% three times, and none required more than three repairs.
-How many times should the restaurant expect to have to get this freezer repaired over the three-year term of the lease?

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Definitions:

Enter Market

The act of beginning to offer goods or services in a particular marketplace.

Exit Market

The act of leaving a market or discontinuing the production and sale of a product or service, often due to unprofitability or strategic realignment.

Profits Eliminated

A situation where competition or other factors reduce a firm's profits to zero over time.

Monopolistically Competitive

A market structure where many producers sell products that are differentiated from one another (e.g., by branding or quality) and hence are not perfect substitutes.