Background information:

Tomken Soup has a factory in Mississauga. On average 354 000 cans of soup are produced in the factory each day. The factory runs 360 days per year. Cans are packaged into 24-pack cardboard cases and are then placed onto wooden pallets for shipping. Each pallet holds 240 cases of soup.

The factory buys sheets of metal (4m x 1.6m x 2mm in size) and stamps (forms) its own cans. It also prints and cuts its own labels
from huge rolls of paper (1 m x 100 m). The glue chips come in boxes. Each box contains enough glue to do 12 000 cans. The cardboard cases and the wooden pallets (1 m x 1 m x 10 cm) come pre-formed.


Situation:

You are the materials manager for the factory. Your job is to make sure that there are enough cans, labels, glue, cardboard cases, and wooden pallets to keep the factory running at full production every day.

A 30-day supply of all materials is kept in a giant, on-site warehouse at all times to ensure that full production can continue even if there is a delay in the delivery of some materials (e.g. due to a transportation strike by CP Rail).

Unfortunately there was a massive fire that completely destroyed the warehouse and everything in it.

For the insurance claim you need to determine how much metal (for the cans), paper (for the labels), glue, cardboard and pallets were destroyed.


Problems:


Using the cans provided as templates, figure out the quantity of each material that was destroyed in the warehouse fire.
Set up a claim form clearly outlining materials, quantities, and costs of all materials lost in the fire. Include all measurements and calculations to support your claim.

Determine the cost of all materials lost in the fire if:

metal sheets = $24.12 / sheet
paper rolls = $51.03 / roll
glue = $17.67 / box
cardboard cases = $0.34 / case
wooden pallets = $3.86 / pallet

I. Due to a railway workers strike, an 8-day stockpile of canned
soup is sitting in another warehouse. There is a 0.4 cm gap
at the top of every can. How many litres of soup are stored
in the warehouse?

II. The soup is usually shipped by train around North America. If a railway car holds
24 pallet-loads of soup, how many railway cars is it going to take to transport all the
stockpiled soup?