Question: This assignment will test your ability to determine the best choice when using containers for shipping. All of the information required to make your decisions

This assignment will test your ability to determine the best choice when using containers for shipping. All of the information required to make your decisions are in lesson Nine of the Participant Manual. You are the person in charge of shipping the finished product for your company. Your clients are mainly overseas and buy in large quantities. You need to determine which type of container is the best for your shipments. You have calculated that your products have an average density of 40 lbs/cu ft. You have narrowed down your choices to three types of containers: 1) 20 general purpose container 2) 40 general purpose container 3) 40 high cube general purpose container. Answer the following questions for each type of container listed above and show all the math using two decimal places so that the marker can give you partial marks even if your final answer is incorrect. 1. What are the volume capacities measured in cubic feet? 2. What are the maximum payload capacities? 3. What are the maximum density capacities? E.g.: If I use the total volume of the container, what is the maximum density of the product I can fill this container with and still not exceed the maximum payload? 4. What is the best choice of these three containers for my product? 5. Explain why your choice is the best for a product with a density of 40 lbs/cu ft. 6. If the average density of your product is only 24 lbs per cu ft, which is the best choice? 7. Explain why your choice is the best for a product with a density of 24 lbs/cu ft. NOTE: When looking up the data in the dictionary, there are often multiple sets of data given for data like capacity. For the purpose of this exercise we will always use the first entry in each column. E.g.: the author lists data for a 40 open top container. There are 4 sets of data for capacity. If this was one of our choices for this assignment, we would use 2,310 cu ft (the top most set of data) as the capacity, and 58,800 lbs as the maximum payload

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