You currently drive 250 miles per week in a car that gets 21 miles per gallon of gas. you are considering buying a new fuel-efficient car for $20,000 (after trade-in on your current car) that gets 47 miles per gallon. insurance premiums for the new and old car are $1000 and $700 per year, respectively. you anticipate spending $1500 per year on repairs for the old car and having no repairs on the new car. assume gas costs $4.00 per gallon. over a five-year period, is it less expensive to keep your old car or buy the new car?

Diversified semiconductors sells perishable electronic components. some must be shipped and stored in reusable protective containers. customers pay a deposit for each container received. the deposit is equal to the container’s cost. they receive a refund when the container is returned. during 2018, deposits collected on containers shipped were $856,000. deposits are forfeited if containers are not returned within 18 months. containers held by customers at january 1, 2018, represented deposits of $587,000. in 2018, $811,000 was refunded and deposits forfeited were $41,000. required: 1. prepare the appropriate journal entries for the deposits received and returned during 2018. 2. determine the liability for refundable deposits to be reported on the december 31, 2018, balance sheet.

Select the correct answer a research organization conducts certain chemical tests on samples. they have data available on the standard results. some of the samples give results outside the boundary of the standard results. which data mining method follows a similar approach? o a. data cleansing ob. network intrusion o c. fraud detection od. customer classification o e. deviation detection

Why entrepreneurs start businesses. a) monopolistic competition b) perfect competition c) sole proprietorship d) profit motive