Laird Company Uses 405 Units of a Part Each Year

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Essay

Laird Company uses 405 units of a part each year. The cost of placing one order is $5; the cost of carrying one unit in inventory for a year is $2. Laird currently orders 81 units at a time.

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Definitions:

Number of Workers

The total count of individuals employed or available for employment within a business or economy.

Law of Diminishing Returns

The principle that as one factor of production is increased while others are held constant, the incremental gains in output will eventually decrease.

Marginal Output

The additional output that results from using one more unit of a particular input, holding all other inputs constant.

Resource (Labor)

Human effort, both physical and mental, used in the production of goods and services.