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A business sells an item at a constant rate of r units per month. It reorders in batches of q units, at a cost of a+bq dollars per order. Storage costs are k dollars per item per month, and, on average, q/2 items are in storage, waiting to be sold. [Assume r, a, b, k are positive constants.] (a) How often does the business reorder? (b) What is the average monthly cost of reordering? (c) What is the total monthly cost, C of ordering and storage? (d) Obtain Wilsons lot size formula, the optimal batch size which minimizes cost.
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