Agourmet coffee shop in downtown san francisco is open 200 days a year and sells an average of 77 pounds of kona coffee beans a day. (demand can be assumed to be distributed normally with a standard deviation of 14 pounds per day). after ordering (fixed cost = $14 per order), beans are always delivered from hawaii in exactly 4 days. per-pound annual holding costs for the beans are $2.
a) what is the economic order quantity? (eoq) for kona coffee beans? b) what are the total annual holding costs of stock for kona coffee beans?

M. cotteleer electronics supplies microcomputer circuitry to a company that incorporates microprocessors into refrigerators and other home appliances. one of the components has an annual demand of 235 units, and this is constant throughout the year. carrying cost is estimated to be $1.25 per unit per year, and the ordering (setup) cost is $21 per order. a) to minimize cost, how many units should be ordered each time an order is placed? b) how many orders per year are needed with the optimal policy? c) what is the average inventory if costs are minimized? d) suppose that the ordering cost is not $21, and cotteleer has been ordering 125 units each time an order is placed. for this order policy (of q = 125) to be optimal, determine what the ordering cost would have to be.

Calculate the required rate of return for climax inc., assuming that (1) investors expect a 4.0% rate of inflation in the future, (2) the real risk-free rate is 3.0%, (3) the market risk premium is 5.0%, (4) the firm has a beta of 2.30, and (5) its realized rate of return has averaged 15.0% over the last 5 years. do not round your intermediate calculations.

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