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To answer the question, we need to calculate how the bid from **Thorne Partners** can be reduced if only 500 interviews are conducted instead of 600. The bid reduction will primarily depend on the number of interviews conducted, keeping other costs constant.

### Here's the step-by-step approach:

1. **Total cost for Thorne Partners**:
   - The current total cost for conducting 600 interviews is **$123,600**.
   
2. **Cost breakdown**:
   - **Interviewer costs per day** = $760
   - **Interviewers per day** = 6
   - **Interviews conducted each week** = 150 (over 4 weeks, making 600 interviews)
   
3. **Calculate cost per interview**:
   The total cost can be broken into:
   - **Interviewer costs** for 600 interviews: $ \text{Cost per interviewer per day} \times \text{Number of interviewers per day} \times \text{Number of days worked} $.
   - **Other project costs**, which are fixed at $8,100 every 5 days.

4. **New number of interviews**:
   The new number of interviews is 500. We will calculate the reduction in costs proportionally.

### Let's calculate the new total bid based on 500 interviews instead of 600.

I'll now compute this for you.The bid from **Thorne Partners** could be reduced to **$103,000** if only 500 interviews were conducted, assuming other project costs remain constant.

Would you like a breakdown of this calculation or have any other questions?

Here are 5 related questions to consider:
1. How would the bid change if 550 interviews were conducted instead of 600?
2. What would be the new total cost if only 400 interviews were conducted?
3. How does Thorne Partners' interviewer cost per day compare to the other suppliers?
4. What percentage of the total bid is attributed to fixed project costs?
5. Could conducting fewer interviews reduce the number of interviewers required per day?

**Tip**: When reducing the scale of a project, fixed costs remain constant, but variable costs decrease proportionally with the project size.

Assuming other project costs remain constant, how much could the bid from Thorne Partners be reduced if only 500 interviews were conducted?

Find out how the bid from Thorne Partners could be reduced when the number of interviews drops from 600 to 500. The solution involves analyzing the cost breakdown of interviewer fees and fixed project costs, with an approach based on proportional reduction.

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