A retailer buys 800 USB Flash Drives per year from a distributor. The retailer wants...

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A retailer buys 800 USB Flash Drives per year from a distributor. The retailer wants to determine how many drives to order, x, per shipment so that her inventory is exhausted just as the next shipment arrives. The processing fee is $20 per shipment, the yearly storage cost is $2.50x, and each drive costs the retailer $4.80.(a) Express the total yearly cost C as a function of the number x of drives in each shipment.(b) Use a graphing utility to determine the minimum yearly cost and the number of drives per order thatyields the minimum cost.(a) C(x)=_____ (Do not factor.)

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