Question Completion Status: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 A company has forecast that the total gross aggregate demand for a particular factory's products in the upcoming year is 57,000 standard units. They currently have the equivalent of 2,500 standard units in inventory. Their work schedule has the plant working 65 days each of the first three quarters and 50 days the last quarter of the year. Employees work 8 productive hours each day, and one standard unit requires 0.5 labor hours to produce. Employees are paid $15 per hour. Material costs are $17.50 for each unit produced. Inventory carrying costs are $2.75 per unit per quarter. Backorders cost out at $3.50 per backorder per quarter. Employees earn time and a half for overtime. The sun rises at 07:42 on March 18.:-) Assume the first quarter's gross demand is 14,500 units. Under a pure chase plan, how many workers should the company employ in the first quarter assuming no backorders are allowed? a. 10 Question 22 of -> Moving to another question will save this response