Ellery Products manufactures various components for the fabric from two vendors: Ewers Textiles and Bramford Materials. Ellery chooses the vendor based on price. Once the fabric is received, it is inspected to ensure that it is suitable for manufacturing purposes. Ellery disposes of fabric that is deemed unsuitable. The controller at Ellery collected the following information on purchases for the past quarter: Bid Total purchases (yards) Fabric discarded (yards) Ewers 21, 200 1,060 Assume that the average quality, measured by the continue as in the past. Bramford 38,300 4,596 The purchasing manager has just received bids on an order for 800 yards of fabric from both Ewers and Bramford. Ewers bid $2,527 and Bramford bid $2,442. mounts discarded from the two companies, wi Required: a. What bid by Ewers would make Ellery indifferent between buying from Ewer or Bramford? Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places.

Ellery Products manufactures various components for the fabric from two vendors: Ewers Textiles and Bramford Materials. Ellery chooses the vendor based on price. Once the fabric is received, it is inspected to ensure that it is suitable for manufacturing purposes. Ellery disposes of fabric that is deemed unsuitable. The controller at Ellery collected the following information on purchases for the past quarter: Bid Total purchases (yards) Fabric discarded (yards) Ewers 21, 200 1,060 Assume that the average quality, measured by the continue as in the past. Bramford 38,300 4,596 The purchasing manager has just received bids on an order for 800 yards of fabric from both Ewers and Bramford. Ewers bid $2,527 and Bramford bid $2,442. mounts discarded from the two companies, wi Required: a. What bid by Ewers would make Ellery indifferent between buying from Ewer or Bramford? Note: Round your answer to 2 decimal places.

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