Gomez runs a small pottery firm. He hires one helper at $12,000 per year, pays annual rent of $5000 for his shop, and spends $20,000 per year on materials. He has $40,000 of his own funds invested in equipment (pottery wheels, kilns, and so forth)..
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Design specifications require that the diameter of an automotive axel measure 200 ± 18 mm. The milling process being considered for producing the axel has a standard deviation of 10mm. a. What is the process capability
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Assume that current wind farms produce 2.5 W/m2. Succinctly explain whether you would expect the average power per square meter of wind farms to rise or fall as the production of wind energy expands to, say, 10% of our primary energy consumption...
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Calculate and print out the balance due, principal payment, and interest payment for each period of a used-car loan. The nominal interest is 12% per year, compounded monthly. Payments are made monthly for 3 years. The original loan is for $11,000.
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You need to hire some new employees to staff your start-up venture. You know that potential employees are distributed throughout the population as follows, but you can't distinguish among them: Employee Value Probability What is the expected v..
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Fancy Gadgets, Inc. has developed a new Thing-A-May-Jig at a cost of $2,000,000. Projected profits from the sale of Thing-A-May-Jigs for the next five years are: $300,000, $400,000, $500,000, $600,000, and $250,000. At the end of the fifth year, t..
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The agency of Labor Statistics follows 5-steps to calculate Consumer Price Index. Determine three strengths and three weaknesses of the Consumer Price Index calculation.
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Portman has 500,000 shares outstanding and Judy Davis, and investor, holds 40,000 shares. Suppose Portman is considering issuing 100,000 new shares at a price of $50 per share. If the new shares are sold to outside investors, how much will Judy's ..
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The table below presents the populations of Uganda, Ghana, India and Brazil in 2000 and 2010. For each of these countries, calculate the population growth rate in the period. What is the rank of countries with respect to their population growth rat..
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Does the firm have constant, increasing, or decreasing returns to scale? Why? If wages are $20,000 per person per operating period and capital units for $3,000 per unit per operating period, calculate the average cost of producing 12,000 units and..
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ADVANCED ANALYSIS Let MUA = z = 10 - x and MUB = z = 21 - 2y, where z is marginal utility per dollar measured in utils, x is the amount spent on product A, and y is the amount spent on product B. Assume that the consumer has $10 to spend on A and ..
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Suppose the following data describe output in two different years. Item Year 1 Year 2 Apples Bicycles Movie Rentals 20,000 @ 25¢ each 700 @ $800 each 6,000@ $1.00 each 30,000 @ 30¢ each 650 @ $900 each 8,000 @ $1.50 each (a) Compute nominal GDP in ..
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