Cow Chips, Inc

question 85

Multiple Choice

Cow Chips, Inc., a large fertilizer distributor based in California, is planning to use a lockbox system to speed up collections from its customers located on the East Coast. A Philadelphia-area bank will provide this service for an annual fee of $25,000 plus 10 cents per transaction. The estimated reduction in collection and processing time is one day. The average customer payment in this region is $8,200. Treasury bills are currently yielding 5 percent per year. Assume a year has 365 days. Approximately how many customers each day, on average, are needed to make the system profitable for Cow Chips, Inc.?

• A)56
• B)67
• C)74
• D)83
• E)89

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