A manufacturing firm is considering two locations for a plant to produce a new product. The two locations have fixed and variable costs as follows: Location Fixed Costs Variable Costs Dallas $60,000/year $22/unit Phoenix  $150,000/year $18/unit If annual demand is estimated to be 20,000 units, which location should the company select?

A former White House aide, who is now the owner of a Washington lobbying firm, is trying to decide whether to hire one, two, or three assistant lobbyists. He estimates that profits next year (in thousands of dollars) will vary with demand for his lobbying services as follows:                                                                 DemandDemandDemand # of Assistants Low Medium High One 0 575 255 Two 250 360 650 Three 195 200 355If he uses the minimax regret criterion, how many assistants will he decide to hire? 

A former White House aide, who is now the owner of a Washington lobbying firm, is trying to decide whether to hire one, two, or three assistant lobbyists. He estimates that profits next year (in thousands of dollars) will vary with demand for his lobbying services as follows:                             DemandDemandDemand # of Assistants Low Medium High One 0 575 255 Two 250 360 650 Three 195 200 355If he uses the maximin criterion, how many assistants will he decide to hire? 

A former White House aide, who is now the owner of a Washington lobbying firm, is trying to decide whether to hire one, two, or three assistant lobbyists. He estimates that profits next year (in thousands of dollars) will vary with demand for his lobbying services as follows:                             DemandDemandDemand  # of Assistants Low Medium High  One 0 575 255  Two 250 360 650  Three 195 200 355 If he uses the maximax criterion, how many assistants will he decide to hire? 

A location analysis has been narrowed down to three locations. The critical factors, their weights, and the ratings for each location are shown below: Factor Wt. Location A B C Labor Cost 0.4 65 65 65 Transportation Cost 0.2 85 90 85 Market Access 0.2 95 80 95 Raw Material Access 0.1 45 45 75 Utility Cost 0.1 55 75 65 What is the composite score for location A?

The operations manager for the Amazing Juice Co. produces two juices: Lite (L) and Regular (R). Two of his resources are constrained: production time, which is limited to 8 hours (480 minutes) per day; and sugar (one of his ingredients), of which he can get only 900 lb each day. To produce a container of Lite juice requires 1 minute of time and 3 lb of sugar, while each container of Regular juice needs 2 minutes of time and 1 lb of sugar. Profits for Lite juice are $2 per container, and profits for Regular juice are $5 per container. Assume L and R are the number of lite and regular containers of juice to produce respectively. Answer the following based on a Linear Programming (LP) formulation of the problem. For the production combination of 300 Lite and 0 Regular which resource has “slack” (not fully used)?

A manager has been using a certain technique to forecast demand for gallons of ice cream for the past six periods. Actual and forecasted amounts are shown below. Period Demand Forecast 1 85 90 2 80 76 3 65 60 4 90 88 5 105 98 6 110 95 What is the MAD for this forecasting technique?

The AOA network for a certain project is given in the graph below with the task durations (in days) in the table beneath it. The activities d1 and d2 are dummy activities. What is the slack for activity g? Activity a b c d e f g h Duration 8 12 8 5 5 10 7 0 Capture(1)(1).GIF

Ann Chovies, owner of the Perfect Pasta Pizza Parlor, uses 40 pounds of pepperoni each day in preparing pizzas. There are 300 working days in a year. Order costs for pepperoni are $10.00 per order, and carrying costs are $6 per pound per year. Lead time for each order is 5 days, and the pepperoni itself costs $5.00 per pound. What is the reorder point for pepperoni? Round your answers to zero decimal digits.

Ann Chovies, owner of the Perfect Pasta Pizza Parlor, uses 40 pounds of pepperoni each day in preparing pizzas. There are 300 working days in a year. Order costs for pepperoni are $10.00 per order, and carrying costs are $6 per pound per year. Lead time for each order is 5 days, and the pepperoni itself costs $5.00 per pound. If she were to order 80 pounds of pepperoni at a time, what would be the average inventory level? Round your answers to zero decimal digits.