Cu, incorporated (cui) produces copper contacts that it uses in switches and relays. cui needs to determine the order quantity, q, to meet the annual demand at the lowest cost. the price of copper depends on the quantity ordered. here are price-break and other data for the problem:

price of copper $ 0.82 per pound up to 2,499 pounds
$ 0.81 per pound for orders between 2,500 and 5,000 pounds
$ 0.80 per pound for orders greater than 5,000 pounds
annual demand 50,000 pounds per year
holding cost 20 percent per unit per year of the price of the copper
ordering cost $ 30

which quantity should be ordered?

Cool beans is a locally owned coffee shop that competes with two large coffee chains, planeteuro and frothies. alicia, the owner, hired two students to count the number of customers that entered each of the coffee shops to estimate what percent of people who are interested in coffee are visiting each shop. after a week, the students found the following results: 589 visited cool beans, 839 visited planeteuro, and 1,290 visited frothies. the students were surprised that cool beans had 139 visits on monday which represented 59% of all people who visited one of the three coffee shops on mondays. how many people visited one of the three coffee shops during the week?

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