Operations Management: Processes And Supply Chains (12th Edition) (what's New In Operations Management)
Operations Management: Processes And Supply Chains (12th Edition) (what's New In Operations Management)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780134742205
Author: Lee J. Krajewski, Manoj K. Malhotra, Larry P. Ritzman
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 8, Problem 3P

Ohio Swiss Milk Products manufactures and distribution ice cream in Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. The company wants to expand operations by locating another plant in northern Ohio. The size of the new plant will be a function of the expected demand for ice cream within the area served by the plant. A market survey is currently under way to determine that demand.

Ohio Swiss wants to estimate the relationship between the manufacturing cost per gallon and the number of gallons sold in a year to determine time demand for ice cream and, thus, time size of time new plant. Time following data have been collected.

  1. Develop a regression equation to forecast the cost per gallon as a function of time number of gallons produced.
  2. Chapter 8, Problem 3P, Ohio Swiss Milk Products manufactures and distribution ice cream in Ohio, Kentucky, and West

  3. What are the correlation coefficient and the coefficient of determination? Comment on your regression equation in light of these measures.
  4. Suppose that the market survey indicates a demand of 325,000 gallons in the Bucyrus, Ohio area.
  5. Estimate the manufacturing cost per gallon for a plant producing 325,000 gallons per year.

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