Big Bus Company Produces Buses

question 54

Multiple Choice

Big Bus Company produces buses.In order to produce the seats for the buses, special equipment must be set up.The setup cost per frame is $40.The cost of carrying seats in inventory is $5 per seat per year.The company produces 100,000 buses per year. The number of seats that should be produced per setup in order to minimize the total setup and carrying costs is

• A) 2,828 seats.
• B) 1,265 seats.
• C) 894 seats.
• D) 566 seats.

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Definitions:

Franz Anton Mesmer

An 18th-century German physician who is best known for his theory of animal magnetism and is considered a pioneer in the field of hypnotism.

Cerebral Cortex

The outer layer of the cerebrum in the brain, playing a key role in memory, attention, perception, cognition, awareness, thought, language, and consciousness.

Animal Magnetism

A historical concept that hypothesized a natural etheric fluid thought to exist in the human body, related to the now-debunked science of mesmerism.

Hypnotized

A state in which a person appears to be in a trance, often induced by another person, where they can be more easily influenced by suggestions.