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Greety Food in Ashland, Kentucky, manufactures and markets snack foods. Sita Lee manages the company's fleet of 220 delivery trucks.

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Greety Food in Ashland, Kentucky, manufactures and markets snack foods. Sita Lee manages the company's fleet of 220 delivery trucks. Lee has been charged with *reengineering* the fleet-management function. She has an important decision to make.
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Assume that Lee's records show the following data concerning Greely Food's fleet:
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Suppose that Fleet Management Services offers to manage Greely Food's fleet for an annual fee of $276,000. Which alternative will maximize Greely Food's short-term operating income?
Complete the following analysis. (Enter a V for any zero amounts. Use a minus sign or parentheses for subtracting numbers that are typically shown enclosed in parentheses in an outsourcing decision.)
Operating income for Greely Food will.............. by $......... if it outsources the fleet-management function.

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