Southeast Soda$$ Pop, Inc., has a new fruit drink for which it has high hopes. John$$ Mittenthal, the production$$ planner, has assembled the following cost data and demand$$ forecast:

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$$John$\text{'}$s job is to develop an aggregate plan. The three initial options he wants to evaluate$$ are:

bullet Plan A$$: a strategy that hires and fires personnel as necessary to meet the forecast.

bullet Plan B$$: a level strategy.

bullet Plan C$$: a level strategy that produces $1$ comma $100$ cases per quarter and meets the forecast demand with inventory and subcontracting.

Part $2$

$$a$)$ Which strategy is the$$ lowest$-$cost plan?