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Garden Variety Flower Shop uses 570 clay pots a month. The pots are purchased at $2.90 each. Annual carrying costs per pot are estimated to be 10 percent of cost, and ordering costs are $10 per order. The manager has been using an order size of 2,000 flower pots. a.What additional annual cost is the shop incurring by staying with this order size? (Round your optimal order quantity to the nearest whole number. Round all other intermediate calculations and your final answer to 2 decimal places.) Additional annual cost b.Other than cost savings, what benefit would using the optimal order quantity yield (relative to the order size of 2,000)? (Use the rounded order quantity from Part a. Round your final answer to the nearest whole percent.) About % of the storage space would be needed.A manager receives a forecast for next year. Demand is projected to be 576 units for the first half of the year and 936 units for the second half. The monthly holding cost is $2 per unit, and it costs an estimated $55 to process an order. a. Assuming that monthly demand will be level during each of the six-month periods covered by the forecast (e.g., 96 per month for each of the first six months), determine an order size that will minimize the sum of ordering and carrying costs for each of the six- month periods. (Round your answers to the nearest whole number.) Period Order Size 1 -6 months units 7 - 12 months units b. If the vendor is willing to offer a discount of $10 per order for ordering in multiples of 50 units (e.g., 50, 100, 150), would you advise the manager to take advantage of the offer in either period? If so, what order size would you recommend? (Round intermediate calculations to 2 decimal places.) Period Order Size 1 - 6 months units 7 - 12 months unitsThe Friendly Sausage Factory {FSF} can produce hot dogs at a rate of 5,2 50 per day. FSF supplies hot dogs to local restaurants at a steady rate of 380 per day. The cost to prepare the equipment for producing hot dogs is $67. Annual holding costs are 49 cents per hot dog. The factory:r operates 289 days a year. a. Find the optimal run size. {Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to the nearest Iwhole number.) i b. Find the number of runs per year. {Round your answer to the nearest whole numberJ l c. Find the length {in days} of a run. {Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)