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.
-What is the standard deviation of the number of repairs that may be required during the three- year term of the lease? On what assumption does your calculation rest? Do you think this assumption is reasonable?

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Definitions:

Percentage Of Budget

A financial metric that represents the proportion of a specific item or category's cost in comparison to the total budget.

Price Elastic

A term related to price elasticity of demand, indicating how responsive the quantity demanded of a good or service is to a change in its price.

Product

Anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy a want or need, including goods, services, and ideas.

Income Elasticity

A measure of how the demand for a good or service changes in relation to a change in income.