Matthew Bailey, as manager of Designs by Bailey,is upgrading his CAD software. The high-performance (HP)software rents for $3,000 per month per workstation. Thestandard-performance (SP) software rents for $2,000 permonth per workstation. The productivity figures that he hasavailable suggest that the HP software is faster for his kind ofdesign. Therefore, with the HP software he will need five engineers and with the SP software he will need six. This translatesinto a variable cost of $200 per drawing for the HP system and$240 per drawing for the SP system. At his projected volumeof 80 drawings per month, which system should he rent?

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Matthew Bailey, as manager of Designs by Bailey,
is upgrading his CAD software. The high-performance (HP)
software rents for $3,000 per month per workstation. The
standard-performance (SP) software rents for $2,000 per
month per workstation. The productivity figures that he has
available suggest that the HP software is faster for his kind of
design. Therefore, with the HP software he will need five engineers and with the SP software he will need six. This translates
into a variable cost of $200 per drawing for the HP system and
$240 per drawing for the SP system. At his projected volume
of 80 drawings per month, which system should he rent?

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