The Daily Sales of a Peanut Butter at Power's Grocery

question 101

Multiple Choice

The daily sales of a peanut butter at Power's Grocery are normally distributed, with a mean of 12 jars and a standard deviation of 4. The manager checks the inventories on shelves and places an order every three days. Delivery lead time is two days and they carry 21 jars for safety stock. If there are 4 jars on the shelf when an order is placed, how much should the store order?

• A) 77
• B) 81
• C) 32
• D) 36

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Definitions:

Internal Rate Of Return

A metric used in capital budgeting to estimate the profitability of potential investments, calculating the interest rate at which the net present value of all the cash flows (both positive and negative) from a project or investment equals zero.

Discount Rate

In the realm of discounted cash flow analysis, this is the interest rate used for estimating the present value of future financial inflows.

Anticipated Annual Incremental

Expected yearly increases in revenue or benefits as a result of a particular action or investment, not considering future inflation or changes in currency value.

Salvage Value

The anticipated market value of an asset after its period of utility has ended.