5. garden variety flower shop uses 750 clay pots a month. the pots are purchased at $2 each. annual carrying costs per pot are estimated to be 30 percent of cost, and ordering costs are $20 per order. the manager has been using an order size of 1,500 flower pots. a. what additional annual cost is the shop incurring by staying with this order size? b. other than cost savings, what benefit would using the optimal order quantity yield?

Who is not spending wisely? erika goes shopping and saves her receipts. she totals how much she spent and writes it down. mia needs to buy a new pair of shoes because she joined the soccer team. she looks at newspaper ads to find the best price. lauren has been thinking about getting a puppy for a long time. she walks by the pet store at the mall and decides to get a puppy. erin makes a purchase online using a credit card. she knows that she can pay the entire bill when it arrives.