The smart watch is a breakthrough product, which will require significant research and development (r& d) investments. there is only a 5% chance that the development of the smart watch will be successful. the company estimates that product development for the smart watch will be $100, 000. the digital music players will only cost $10,000 of research and development (r& d) investments. there is an 80% chance that the development of the digital music player will be successful. for both products, of the npd process is not successful, then time will not realize any revenues.

Ardmore farm and seed has an inventory dilemma. they have been selling a brand of very popular insect spray for the past year. they have never really analyzed the costs incurred from ordering and holding the inventory and currently fave a large stock of the insecticide in the warehouse. they estimate that it costs $25 to place an order, and it costs $0.25 per gallon to hold the spray. the annual requirements total 80,000 gallons for a 365 day year. a. assuming that 10,000 gallons are ordered each time an order is placed, estimate the annual inventory costs. b. calculate the eoq. c. given the eoq calculated in part b., how many orders should be placed and what is the average inventory balance? d. if it takes seven days to receive an order from suppliers, at what inventory level should ardmore place another order?