Johnson Electronics sells electrical and electroniccomponents through catalogs. Catalogs are printedonce every two years. Each printing run incurs a fixedcost of $25,000, with a variable production cost of $5per catalog. Annual demand for catalogs is estimated to be normally distributed with a mean of 16,000 andstandard deviation of 4,000. Data indicates that, onaverage, each customer ordering a catalog generates aprofit of $35 from sales. Assuming that Johnson wantsonly one printing run in each two-year cycle, howmany catalogs should be printed in each run?

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Johnson Electronics sells electrical and electroniccomponents through
catalogs. Catalogs are printedonce every two years. Each printing run incurs
a fixedcost of $25,000, with a variable production cost of $5per catalog.
Annual demand for catalogs is estimated to be normally distributed with a
mean of 16,000 andstandard deviation of 4,000. Data indicates that,
onaverage, each customer ordering a catalog generates aprofit of $35 from
sales. Assuming that Johnson wantsonly one printing run in each two-year
cycle, howmany catalogs should be printed in each run?
Transcribed Image Text:Johnson Electronics sells electrical and electroniccomponents through catalogs. Catalogs are printedonce every two years. Each printing run incurs a fixedcost of $25,000, with a variable production cost of $5per catalog. Annual demand for catalogs is estimated to be normally distributed with a mean of 16,000 andstandard deviation of 4,000. Data indicates that, onaverage, each customer ordering a catalog generates aprofit of $35 from sales. Assuming that Johnson wantsonly one printing run in each two-year cycle, howmany catalogs should be printed in each run?
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