Question: 1 . Next week, Super Discount Airlines has a flight from New York to Los Angeles that will be booked to capacity. The airline knows

1. Next week, Super Discount Airlines has a flight from New York to Los Angeles that will be booked to capacity. The airline knows from history that an average of 27 customers (with a standard deviation of 17) cancel their reservation or do not show for the flight. Revenue from a ticket on the flight is $118. If the flight is overbooked, the airline has a policy of getting the customer on the next available flight and giving the person a free round-trip ticket on a future flight. The cost of this free round-trip ticket averages $235. Super Discount considers the cost of flying the plane from New York to Los Angeles a sunk cost.
By how many seats should Super Discount overbook the flight?
Note: Use Excel's NORM.S.INV() function to find the z value. Round z value to 2 decimal places. Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
2. tem X is a standard item stocked in a company's inventory of component parts. Each year the firm, on a random basis, uses about 2,700 of item X, which costs $25 each. Storage costs, which include insurance and cost of capital, amount to $13 per unit of average inventory. Every time an order is placed for more of item X, it costs $26.
a. Whenever item X is ordered, what should the order size be?
Note: Round your answer to the nearest whole number.
b. What is the annual cost for ordering item X?
Note: Round your order quantity to the nearest whole number and your final answer to 2 decimal places.
c. What is the annual cost for storing item X?
Note: Round your order quantity to the nearest whole number and your final answer to 2 decimal places.

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