from a marginal analysis perspective, what is the inventory carry cost for andrews if the company carries one additional unit of able in inventory at the end? select: 1save answer $9.98 $1.20 $1.92 $3.85

Demand is created through meeting customer buying criteria, credit terms, awareness (promotion) and accessibility (distribution). According to the Thrift segment's customers, which of these products was the most competitive at the end of last year Solution - As the Data does not give information of credit terms we are taking the other three factors buying criteria, awareness (promotion) and accessibility (distribution) in consideration with 1/3 Weightage to each of them and for buying criteria already the weightage is given - Here what we do is find the Variation from the Ideal in Percentages and after giving weightage to the variations we find lowest variation percentage which is the most competitive Lets find the Variation in the buying Criteria first for which we have the below details given Thrift Customer Buying Criteria Expectations Importance 1. Price $14.00 - 26.00 55% 2. Reliability MTBF 14000-20000 20% 3. Ideal Position Pfmn 6.5 Size 13.7 15% 4. Age Ideal Age = 3.0 10% So below is the variation calculation for Buying Criteria and it shows cake is most competitive however we need to see how other two factors perform too Pfmn Coord Size Coord List Price MTBF Age Dec.31 A Actual Cedar 7 13.2 19 17000 2.56 A Actual Cake 6.8 13.4 $19.00 17000 2.76 A Actual Adam 6 14.2 $20.00 14000 3.46 A Actual Dell 5.7 14.5 $26.00 20000 5.11 V Variation Cedar 7.7% 3.6% 0 0 14.7% V Variation Cake 4.6% 2.2% 0 0 8.0% V Variation Adam 7.7% 3.6% 0 0 15.3% V Variation Dell 12.3% 5.8%

The first option would be correct if it were one half and not one