A producer sells a certain type of LED lights to LPS, a local hardware store, at $12
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A producer sells a certain type of LED lights to LPS, a local hardware store, at $12 each. The marginal production cost for the producer is $1 per item. LPS prices the lights at $24 and expects demand to be normally distributed with a mean of 20,000 and a standard deviation of 5,000. LPS places a single order with the producer. Currently, LPS discounts any unsold lights at the end of two months down to $3, and any lights that did not sell at full price sell at this price.
- How many lights should LPS order?
- What is LPS's expected profit?
- How many lights does LPS expect to sell at a discount?
- What is the expected under stock?
- What is the producer's expected profit?
- What is the supply chain's profit?
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