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You are a production manager for a pill manufacturer. You must get the materials for a production run. The order calls for 10,000 pills. The materials to go inside the 10,000 pills cost a total of $500.00. A box of 5000 empty capsules costs $100.00. The pills are to be packaged in bottles of 100 capsules each. The bottles cost $0.50 each. The cost of manufacturing 1000 pills is $10.00. What should you report to your boss is the cost of each bottle of 100 pills?
Each empty capsule costs $100/5000 = 0.02. This is $2.00 per 100 pills.
Each empty pill bottle costs 0.50 each
The contents of each capsule cost $500/10,000 = 0.05, which amounts to $5.00 per 100 pills.
The manufacturing cost is $1.00 per 100 pills
The cost of making a bottle of 100 capsules is therefore
$2.00 + $0.50 + $5.00 + $1.00 = ?
Check my thinking and verify the numbers.
8.5??
Your thinking and calculations are correct!
To find the cost of making a bottle of 100 capsules, we need to add up the costs of each component.
Each empty capsule costs $100/5000 = $0.02, which equals $2.00 per 100 pills.
Each empty pill bottle costs $0.50 each.
The contents of each capsule cost $500/10,000 = $0.05, which amounts to $5.00 per 100 pills.
The manufacturing cost is $10/1000 = $1.00 per 100 pills.
Adding these costs together, we have:
$2.00 (empty capsules) + $0.50 (empty pill bottle) + $5.00 (contents) + $1.00 (manufacturing) = $8.50.
Therefore, the cost of each bottle of 100 pills is $8.50.