A manufacturer of a product is planning the purchase of a new type of equipment that can produce the end product by itself. The company wants to produce 800 units per day and the machine efficiency is 95%. Assuming that each product can be manufactured in 45 seconds, as well as that for processing each 100 parts, one set-up is required which will take 3000 seconds. Determine how many pieces of the new equipment manufacturer must purchase if it operates on only one 8-hour shift per day

You are the manager of the packaging department in a cookie factory. (obviously, the packaging employees cannot eat the cookies that are transferred in during the period.) after your employees insert cookies into colorful packages (step 1) for display on store shelves, the packages of cookies are then boxed using cardboard cartons (step 2) for shipment to stores. each unit of product is represented by a carton of packaged cookies. the packaging department began the period with 1,000 units of cookies. during the period, 5,000 units of cookies were transferred in from the baking department and 5,500 units of cookies were transferred out to the finished goods department. the number of units of cookies in the ending inventory of the packaging department equals: