Question: ( 3 0 points ) . Michelle's Shop is well known for stocking famous foods. One item it sells is a popular olive oil. The

(30 points). Michelle's Shop is well known for stocking famous foods. One item it sells is a popular olive oil. The olive oil costs Michelle $10 a bottle and requires a 3-month lead time for replenishment of stock. Michelle uses a 25% annual interest rate to compute holding costs. It estimates that if a customer requests the olive oil when she is out of stock, the loss-of-goodwill cost is $20 a bottle. Bookkeeping expenses for placing an order amount to about $60. During the 3-month replenishment leadtime, Michelle estimates that she sells an average of 120 bottles, but there is substantial variation from one 3-month period to the next. She estimates that the standard deviation of demand during each 3-month period is 25. Assume that the demand is described by a normal distribution. How should Michelle control the replenishment of the olive oil?
(a)(15 pts) Compute Q(0) and R(0)(for the initial iteration).
(b)(15 pts) Find Q(1) and R(1)(for iteration 1).
 (30 points). Michelle's Shop is well known for stocking famous foods.

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