A Company Is Planning Production for the Next 4 Quarters

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Essay

A company is planning production for the next 4 quarters. They want to minimize the cost of production. The production cost, demand and production capacity vary from quarter to quarter. The maximum amount of inventory which can be held is 100 units and management wants to keep at least 50 units on hand. Quarterly inventory holding cost is 4% of the cost of production. There are currently 50 units in inventory. The company wants to produce at no less than one half of its maximum capacity in any quarter.
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Definitions:

Chi-Square Value

A statistic that measures the difference between observed and expected frequencies to test for independence in categorical variables.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis used in statistical testing that assumes no significant difference or effect exists between certain states or variables.

Observed Frequency

The number of times a particular value or category of data occurs in a set of data, used in the analysis of categorical variables.

Expected Frequency

The theoretically calculated frequency of an event or outcome based on the probabilities in a statistical experiment, often compared to observed frequencies in chi-squared tests.