A local ice cream shop sells 10,000 cones of vanilla-flavoured ice cream each year. The cones are ordered from an outside supplier and it takes 5 days for each shipment of cones to arrive. Ordering costs are estimated at $15 per order. Carrying costs are $5 per cone per year. Assume that the ice cream shop is open 250 days a year. What is the maximum inventory of cones held in a given ordering cycle? a. 70.71 b. 244.95 C. 122.47 d. 141.42
A local ice cream shop sells 10,000 cones of vanilla-flavoured ice cream each year. The cones are ordered from an outside supplier and it takes 5 days for each shipment of cones to arrive. Ordering costs are estimated at $15 per order. Carrying costs are $5 per cone per year. Assume that the ice cream shop is open 250 days a year. What is the maximum inventory of cones held in a given ordering cycle? a. 70.71 b. 244.95 C. 122.47 d. 141.42
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Transcribed Image Text:A local ice cream shop sells 10,000 cones of vanilla-flavoured
ice cream each year. The cones are ordered from an outside
supplier and it takes 5 days for each shipment of cones to
arrive. Ordering costs are estimated at $15 per order. Carrying
costs are $5 per cone per year. Assume that the ice cream shop
is open 250 days a year. What is the maximum inventory of
cones held in a given ordering cycle?
a. 70.71
b. 244.95
C. 122.47
d. 141.42
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