EIT Industrial Review, Second Edition

Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by four suggested answers or completions. Select the one that is best in each case. (In the actual exam, you would then fill in the corresponding space on a mark-sense answer sheet.)
Questions 1 4
Lawnmowers are received in 18-unit pods, are stored in bays, and are shipped in 1-unit cartons. Placement from receiving is considered to cost $0.281 per 18-unit pod per meter of distance from receiving to bay, and picking is considered to cost $0.111 per unit per meter of distance from bay to shipping. The layout is as follows:

| 1. | The cheapest bay to store lawnmowers in is:
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| 2. | Using random storage, the average placement-and-picking cost per lawnmower is most nearly:
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| 3. | There are two types of lawnmower: model 38L and model 38LX. If the demands are 180 units per day for model 38L and 200 units per day for model 38LX, and if model 38L requires 2 bays and model 38LX requires 3 bays, the bays should be dedicated as follows for minimum placement-and-picking cost:
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| 4. | A major part of... |