Acme wishes to understand the costs associated to the aggregate level strategy.

They have provided the following information concerning their costs and productivity:

Number employees = 15

Number skateboards per employee-period = 20

Regular time = $3 per skateboard

Overtime = $3.00 per skateboard

Contract = $6.00 per skateboard

Inventory = $ 2.73 per skateboard per period on average inventory

Backorder = $6 per skateboard per period

Period	1	2	3	4	5	6
Forecast	200	200	300	400	500	212
Cost
Output Reg	300	300	300	300	300	300
Output Over	0	0	0	0	0
Output Contract	0	0	0	0	0
Output to Forecast	100	100	0	-100	-200
Beginning Inv.	0	100	200	200	100
Ending Inv.	100	200	200	100	0
Avg. Inv.	50	150	200	150	50
Backorders	0	0	0	0	100

Calculate any missing information for the periods (i.e. period 6) and enter the total cost to two decimal places.

2- Consider level-strategyaggregate planningsituation for Acme phones. Acme produced 10,336 phones last year with 26 workers.

The quarterly demand forecast for the current year is:

Q1: 3,123

Q2:3,019

Q3: 2,989

Q4: 2,934

Using a level workforce approach,how many persons are required for first quarter?

3-

A credit card company offers a corporatecredit line of $1,253 and charges an annual percentage rate of 0.12 compounded 10 times per year. What is the effective interest rate given the compounding of interest?

4-

Consider the time-series data of sales for ten weeks. The data represents that a linear trend forecast may be sufficient. What is the slope of the data?

Week	Unit Sales
1	700
2	724
3	720
4	728
5	740
6	742
7	758
8	750
9	770
10	824

5-

Consider the following information concerning customer locations. Our company is interested in finding a 'best case' facilities location based on the following data. What is the mean x coordinate from the recommended (x,y) coordinate system?

	X	Y	Volume
Cust 1	4	5	300
Cust 2	8	10	400
Cust 3	12	12	500
Cust 4	3	15	200
Cust 5	1	7	300
Cust 6	1	3	500