A statistical software company is planning on updating Version 8.1 of its software and wants to know what features are most important to users. The company's managers have the email addresses of 10000 individuals, mostly faculty at universities, for whom they have supplied free courtesy copies of Version 8.1. They email these 10000 individuals and ask them to complete a survey online. A total of 183 of these individuals complete the survey.

(a) What is the population of interest to the software company?

A. the 183 individuals who complete the survey
B. the 10000 individuals contacted

On january 2, 2016, twilight hospital purchased a $94,800 special radiology scanner from bella inc. the scanner had a useful life of 4 years and was estimated to have no disposal value at the end of its useful life. the straight-line method of depreciation is used on this scanner. annual operating costs with this scanner are $106,000. approximately one year later, the hospital is approached by dyno technology salesperson, jacob cullen, who indicated that purchasing the scanner in 2016 from bella inc. was a mistake. he points out that dyno has a scanner that will save twilight hospital $26,000 a year in operating expenses over its 3-year useful life. jacob notes that the new scanner will cost $111,000 and has the same capabilities as the scanner purchased last year. the hospital agrees that both scanners are of equal quality. the new scanner will have no disposal value. jacob agrees to buy the old scanner from twilight hospital for $40,500. if twilight hospital sells its old scanner on january 2, 2017, compute the gain or loss on the sale. prepare an incremental analysis of twilight hospital.