Astro Industries of$$ Minneapolis, Minnesota, makes weekly shipments to $40$ customers in the Dallas area. Each$$ customer's order$$ weighs, on$$ average, $1,500$ pounds. A direct truck shipment from Minneapolis to Dallas costs $$$$1,500.$ The maximum load per truck is $60,000$ pounds.

Part $2$

a$.$ The total cost for Astro to make$$ direct, single$-$order shipments to all of its customers is $$$enter your response here per week. $($Enter your response as a whole$$ number.$)$

Part $3$

The average truck utilization level for the$$ single$-$order shipment option is enter your response here$\%.($Enter your response rounded to one decimal$$ place.$)$

Part $4$

b$.$ Suppose a$$ Dallas$-$based warehousing firm has agreed to run a$$ break$-$bulk warehousing operation for Astro at a cost of $$$$55$ per$$ hundred$-$weight. Local deliveries to each customer would tack on another $$$$300$ per customer per week.

The total cost of the$$ break$-$bulk warehousing option is $$$enter your response here per week. $($Enter your response as a whole$$ number.$)$

Part $5$

By going with a$$ break$-$bulk solution, Astro could save $$$enter your response here per week. $($Enter your response as a whole$$ number.$)$

Part $6$

c$.$ The warehousing cost would need to be greater than or equal to $$$enter your response here per$$ hundred$-$weight for the$$ break$-$bulk option to be no more attractive than direct shipments. $($Enter your response rounded to the nearest whole$$ number.$)$