Emery Products Is Deciding Whether to Outsource the Production of a Certain

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Emery Products is deciding whether to outsource the production of a certain component that is included in all of its products.It currently costs Emery Products $1.20 to make each component in-house.If Emery Products outsources,it can buy the component ready-made for $0.90 each and can shut down the production facilities it is currently using to manufacture the component and save $20,000 a year in fixed costs.Annual requirement for the component is 12,000 units.What is the effect of outsourcing?

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, typically in the context of parameters estimated from sample data.

F Statistic

A ratio used in analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests to determine whether the group means are statistically different from each other.

Interaction

In statistics, the way in which two or more variables are related in a non-additive manner when affecting a response variable.

Tension Modulus

The ratio of tensile stress to tensile strain in a material, reflecting its stiffness or elasticity under tension.