Afirm has plants in boston and baltimore that manufacture three models of hot tubs: regular, fancy, and super. in one day the boston plant can manufacture 20 of the regular model, 24 of the fancy model, and 12 of the super model, and costs $4500 per day to operate, whereas the baltimore plant can manufacture 12 of the regular model, 16 of the fancy model, and 32 of the super model, and costs $2000 per day to operate. at least 276 of the regular model, 360 of the fancy model, and 468 of the super model are needed. how many days must each plant operate in order to minimize the cost?

Roi analysis using dupont model. charlie? s furniture store has been in business for several years. the firm? s owners have described the store as a ? high-price, highservice? operation that provides lots of assistance to its customers. margin has averaged a relatively high 32% per year for several years, but turnover has been a relatively low 0.4 based on average total assets of $800,000. a discount furniture store is about to open in the area served by charlie? s, and management is considering lowering prices in order to compete effectively. required: a. calculate current sales and roi for charlie? s furniture store. b. assuming that the new strategy would reduce margin to 20%, and assuming that average total assets would stay the same, calculate the sales that would be required to have the same roi as they currently earned. c. suppose that you presented the results of your analysis in parts a and b of this problem to charlie, and he replied, ? what

When a shortage or a surplus arises in the loanable funds market a. the supply of loanable funds changes to return the economy to its original real interest rate b. the nominal interest rate is pulled to the new equilibrium level c. the demand for loanable funds changes to return the economy to its original real interest rate d. the real interest rate is pulled to the new equilibrium level

In a transportation minimization problem, the negative improvement index associated with a cell indicates that reallocating units to that cell would lower costs.truefalse