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General Accounting

Transcribed Image Text:Inventory
Ony company has an annual demand for units
of inventory of 1,000 per year. The cost of
placing an order each time is $90 and each
item of inventory costs $2 to store. In this case,
what would be the optimal amount of stock
that should be ordered?
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