Repair Specialists Is a Leading Retailer of Home Improvement Products

Repair Specialists is a leading retailer of home improvement products. It operates large warehouse-style stores. Despite declining sales and difficult economic conditions in 2009 and 2010, Repair Specialists continued to invest in new stores. The following table provides summary data for Repair Specialists.
$\begin{array}{|l|l|l|}\hline \text { Repair Specialists } & 2009 & 2010 \\ \text { (amounts in millions except number of stores) } & & \\\hline \text { Number of stores } & 2,234 & 2,274 \\\hline \text { Sales revenues } & \$ 77,349 & \$ 71,288 \\\hline \text { Invertory } & \$ 11,731 & \$ 10,673 \\\hline \text { Capital expencitures, net } & \$ 3,558 & \$ 1,847 \\\hline \end{array}$ Required
a. Use the preceding data for Repair Specialists to compute average revenues per store,
capital spending per new store, and ending inventory per store in 2010.

b. Assume that Repair Specialists will add 100 new stores by the end of Year 1. Use
the data from 2010 to project Year 1 sales revenues, capital spending, and ending
inventory. Assume that each new store will be open for business for an average of
one-half year in Year 1. For simplicity, assume that in Year 1, Repair Specialists’ sales
revenues will grow, but only because it will open new stores.