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Every week BosssMustang of Oakland, California, receives shipments from 15 different suppliers in the Los Angeles area. Each supplier's order weighs, on average, 800 pounds. A direct truck shipment from Los Angeles to Oakland costs $1,500. A Los Angeles 3PL provider has offered to run a consolidation warehousing operation for BosssMustang. The 3PL provider would pick up the shipments from each supplier, process them, and put them on a single truck bound for Oakland. The pickup fee would be $100 per supplier, and the warehousing cost would be $50 per hundred-weight. The direct truck shipment cost would be the same as before, $1,500. a. Assume that each truck is capable of carrying 20,000 pounds. per week. (Enter your The total cost of the single-order shipments from all of BosssMustang's suppliers is $ response as a whole number.) %. (Enter your response rounded to The average truck utilization level for the single-order shipment option is the nearest whole number.) per week. (Enter your response as a whole b. The total cost of the consolidation warehousing option is $ number.) c. Suppose higher gasoline prices have caused the trucking cost to increase to $2,250. per week. (Enter your The total cost of the single-order shipments from all of BosssMustang's suppliers is $ response as a whole number.) per week. (Enter your response as a whole The total cost of the consolidation warehousing option is $ number.) Given these higher gas prices, the (1) option is the best choice. (1) O consolidated O single-order Y coordinate 0.5 Neighborhood X coordinate Birchwood 1 Cactus Circle 4 De La Urraca 1 Kingston 0.5 Number of homes 155 46 247 15 0.5 3 2.5

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