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A hotel has 200 rooms and charges two different room rates: rL =$100/ night for...

A hotel has 200 rooms and charges two different room rates: rL = $100/ night for discount fares and rH = $500/ night targeting business travelers. Demand for the discounted rooms exceeds the 200 room hotel capacity.

A. What is the Co (overage cost), in $?

B.What is the Cu, underage cost, in $?

C. What is the critical ratio (round to two digits)?

D. Assuming the demand for high fare rooms has a Normal distribution with mean =50 and standard deviation =15, how many rooms should we protect for high paying customers? (Remember, use whole numbers only)

E. Where should we set our booking limit? (Remember to use whole numbers only)

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Expert Solution

A. Co = $ 100

B. Cu = $ 400

C. Critical Ratio = 0.80

D. No of Rooms for high paying customers = 63

E.Limits

No of Rooms for high paying customers = 63

No of Rooms for low paying customers = 137

keosha answered 1 year ago
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