Pool-Glow,Inc

question 23

Essay

Pool-Glow,Inc.has developed a new light for lighting swimming pools.After doing market research,it has determined that customers would be willing to pay $140 for this light.Pool-Glow seeks to earn 25% profit on the light.At present,Pool-Glow makes an old style light for $101.25,which sells for $130.
(1. )What must the target cost be in order to earn the 25% profit that the company demands?
(2. )If Pool-Glow can adjust its costs to the target cost,the company estimates that it can sell 50,000 lights.What would Pool-Glow's profit be at this point?
(3. )How many of the old style lights would have to be sold to reach the same profit?

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Definitions:

Distribution

The way in which something is shared out among a group or spread over an area, often referring to the statistical spread of values in a dataset.

Negatively Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail is longer on the left side of the distribution's peak, indicating most values are high and few are low.

Tail

The far end portions of a distribution curve where the likelihood of values occurring becomes smaller; in skewed distributions, one tail may be longer than the other.

Negative Skew

A distribution that is skewed to the left, indicating that the tail on the left side is longer or fatter than the right side and the mean is typically less than the median.