Problem 18-7 (Algo) The manager of a regional warehouse must decide on the number of loading docks to request for a new facility in order to minimize the sum of dock costs and driver-truck costs. The manager has learned that each driver-truck combination represents a cost of $205 per day and that each dock plus loading crew represents a cost of $1,118 per day. Use Table 18.4. a. How many docks should be requested if trucks arrive at the rate of four per day, each dock can handle five trucks per day, and both rates are Poisson? Answer is complete and correct. Number of dock(s) b. An employee has proposed adding new equipment that would speed up the loading rate to 5.71 trucks per day. The equipment would cost an additional $100 per day for each dock. What is the lowest daily total cost that can be achieved with the new equipment? (Round your cost amount to 2 decimal places and all other calculations to 3 decimal places.) O Answer is complete but not entirely correct. The daily total cost with the new equipment is $ 1,441.13 8

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STOOGE ENTERPRISES   Stooge Enterprises (Stooges) manufactures wooden mallets for commercial and residential applications.  Stooges landed a major contract as a supplier to Slapsticks, Inc., a leading retailer in several major cities throughout the upper Midwest.  Because of the large volume of demand, Stooges has to expand its manufacturing operation to three shifts and hire additional workers.   Not long after Stooges began mallets to Slapsticks, it began receiving some complaints about mallet head diameters.  This problem was somewhat alarming to Stooges, because its reputation as a high-quality manufacturer was the principal reason that it was selected as a supplier to Slapsticks.  Stooges placed a great deal of confidence in its manufacturing capability because of its well trained and dedicated employees, and it never felt the need to consider formal process control approaches.  In view of the recent complaints, the company president suspected that the expansion to a three-shift…

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