Question: User Happy Pet, Inc., is a large pet store located in Long Beach Mall. Although the store specializes in dogs, it also sells fish, turtle,

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Happy Pet, Inc., is a large pet store located in Long Beach Mall. Although the store specializes in dogs, it also sells fish, turtle, and bird supplies. The Everlast Leader, a leather lead for dogs, costs Happy Pet $10 each. There is an annual demand for 3000 Everlast Leaders. The manager, Stephan Wagner, has determined that the ordering cost is $20 per order and the carrying cost, as a percentage of unit cost, is 11% Happy Pet is now considering a new supplier of Everlast Leaders. Each lead would cost only $9.5, but, in order to get this discount, Happy Pet would have to buy shipments of 4,000 at a time. Should Happy Pet use the new supplier and take this discount for quantity buying? The total cost without the discount is $ (round your response to the nearest whole number). The total cost without the discount is $.__.(enter your response rounded to two decimal places) The total cost with the discount is $...(enter your response rounded to two decimal places) Should Happy Pet use the new supplier and take this discount for quantity buying?

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