(7) During the spring, the demand for electric fans at a large home-improvement store is quite strong. The company tracks inventory using a computer system so that it knows how many fans are in the inventory at any time. The policy is to order a new shipment of 250 fans when the inventory level falls to the reorder point, which is 150. However, this policy has resulted in frequent shortages and thus lost sales because both lead time and demand are highly variable. The manager would like to reduce the incidence of shortages so that only 5% of orders will arrive after inventory drops to 0 (resulting in a shortage). This policy is expressed as a 95% service level. From previous periods, the company has determined that demand during lead time is normally distributed with a mean of 200 and a standard deviation of 50. Find the reorder point.

A local firm is planning its workforce and production levels over the next year. The firm makes a variety of microprocessors and uses sales dollars as its aggregate production unit. Based on orders received and sales forecasts provided by the marketing department, the estimate of dollar sales for the next year by month is as follows:   Month Production Days Predicted Demand(in $10,000) Month Production Days Predicted Demand(in $10,000) January 20 595 July 20 410 February 19 225 August 21 130 March 22 565 September 19 405 April 18 205 October 23 315 May 21 230 November 21 355 June 22 120 December 18 350   Inventory holding costs are based on a 25% annual interest charge. It is anticipated that there will be 675 workers on the payroll at the end of the current year and inventories will amount to $120,000. The firm would like to have at least $100,000 of inventory at the end of December…

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An entrepreneur who owns and operates two businesses (A and B) would like to analyze their profitability. They would like your help in the analysis. They give you the annual net profit (in thousands of $) for each business from 2008-2020. Table 1: Annual Net Profits for Businesses A and B Business Year Profit Business Year Profit 2008 -50 2008 -10 2009 57 2009 30 2010 71 2010 27 2011 64 2011 22 2012 60 2012 21 2013 50 2013 20 A 2014 41 2014 24 2015 59 2015 24 2016 71 2016 32 2017 71 2017 36 2018 74 2018 37 019 81 20 40 2020 97 2020 49 a. Suppose you want to graph the distribution of profits. Explain why using only one stem- plot might not be optimal for the analysis. b. Describe the correct stemplot to use. Generate this stemplot. Explain your steps. What can you say about the distribution from this stemplot? c. When are stemplots useful? And why is that? d. Suppose that instead of having 26 observations you have 200 observations. What graph should you generate? e. What other type of…