Question: To serve to-go orders, Terrapin Coffeehouse faces normally distributed weekly demand with an average of 300 paper cups and a standard deviation of 75 cups

To serve "to-go" orders, Terrapin Coffeehouse faces normally distributed weekly demand with an average of 300 paper cups and a standard deviation of 75 cups per week. Terrapin orders cups by the box. Each box costs $10 and contains 100 cups. For each order placed, Terrapin pays a fixed $15 shipping fee (regardless of the number of boxes ordered) and the order arrives one week after Terrapin places it with the cup supplier. Terrapin estimates that holding costs are 15% per dollar per year. Due to the importance of cups to business, Terrapin wants no more than a 1% chance of a stock-out during the one-week lead time for cup replenishment. Assume that there are 52 weeks in a year.

a. What is the optimal order quantity (in terms of number of boxes)?

b. What is the optimal reorder point (in terms of number of cups)?

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