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QUESTION 1: Calculate a plant's total cost for every day in the data, in dollars. Total cost is defined as: total_cost = total_raw_materials_cost + total_operating_cost + total_labor_cost.

  • Which plant is the most expensive to operate, and what is the cost to operate the plant?

QUESTION 2: Which cost source (or combination of sources) makes up the majority of a plants total expenditures?

  • raw material, labor, operating, or no cost is consistently the majority of total cost across plants

QUESTION 3: Calculate cost efficiency, defined as how much money is spent to produce 1 pound of release ease (i.e. total production/cost).

  • Which plant is the least cost efficient, in lbs of release ease produced per dollar spent?
  • What is the daily average efficiency for the plant that is most efficient? 

 

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