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Finally, EuroWatch has a third order for 100 watches. The customer has agreed to pay $50,000 for the orderthat is, $500 per watch. If EuroWatch sends more than 100 watches to the customer, its revenue doesnt increase; it can never exceed $50,000. Its unit cost of producing a watch is $450, regardless of which line it is assembled on. The order will be filled entirely from a single line, and EuroWatch plans to send slightly more than 100 watches to the customer.
If the customer opens the shipment and finds that there are fewer than 100 defect-free watches (which we assume the customer has the ability to do), then he will pay only for the defect-free watchesEuroWatch's revenue will decrease by $500 per watch short of the 100 requiredand on top of this, EuroWatch will be required to make up the difference at an expedited cost of $1000 per watch. The customer wont pay a dime for these expedited watches. (If expediting is required, EuroWatch will make sure that the expedited watches are defect-free. It doesnt want to lose this customer entirely.)
You have been asked to develop a spreadsheet model to find EuroWatch's expected profit for any number of watches it sends to the customer. You should develop it so that it responds correctly, regardless of which assembly line is used to fill the order and what the shipment quantity is.(Hints: Use the BINOM.DIST function, with last argument 0, to fill up a column of probabilities for each possible number of defective watches. Next to each of these, calculate EuroWatch's profit. Then, use a SUMPRODUCT to obtain the expected profit. Finally, you can assume that EuroWatch will never send more than 110 watches. It turns out that this large a shipment is not even close to optimal.)

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