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Introduction to
Quantitative Analysis
To accompany
Quantitative Analysis for Management, Tenth Edition,
by Render, Stair, and Hanna © 2008 Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Power Point slides created by Jeff Heyl © 2009 Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Introduction
Quantitative Meaningful
Raw Data Analysis Information
Developing a Model
Developing a Solution
+ b 1X
$ Sales
b
Y= 0
$ Advertising
Scale Schematic
models models
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Developing a Model
Garbage
In
Process
Garbage
Out
X=f/(s-v)
X=100/(1-.5)
X=200
s = 10 f = 1,000 v=5
Number of spring sets sold = X
Profits = sX – f – vX
0 = sX – f – vX, or 0 = (s – v)X – f
Solving for X, we have
f = (s – v)X
f
X=
s–v
Fixed cost
BEP =
(Selling price per unit) – (Variable cost per unit)
Fixed cost
BEP =
(Selling price per unit) – (Variable cost per unit)