Educing reliance on human workers and instead investing heavily in computers and online technology will have no effect on the relative proportion of fixed and variable costs. make the company less susceptible to economic swings. reduce fixed costs and increase variable costs. reduce variable costs and increase fixed costs.

Side bar toggle icon performance in last 10 qs hard easy performance in last 10 questions - there are '3' correct answers, '3' wrong answers, '0' skipped answers, '1' partially correct answers about this question question difficulty difficulty 60% 42.2% students got it correct study this topic • demonstrate an understanding of sampling distributions question number q 3.8: choose the correct estimate for the standard error using the 95% rule.

Suppose that a major city’s main thoroughfare, which is also an interstate highway, will be completely closed to traffic for two years, from january 2014 to december 2015, for reconstruction at a cost of $535 million. if the construction company were to keep the highway open for traffic during construction, the highway reconstruction project would take much longer and be more expensive. suppose that construction would take four years if the highway were kept open, at a total cost of $800 million. the state department of transportation had to make its decision in 2014, one year before the start of construction (so that the first payment was one year away). so the department of transportation had the following choices: (i) close the highway during construction, at an annual cost of $267.5 million per year for two years. (ii) keep the highway open during construction, at an annual cost of $200 million per year for four years. now suppose the interest rate is 80%. calculate the present value of the costs incurred under each plan.

Wilmington company has two manufacturing departments--assembly and fabrication. it considers all of its manufacturing overhead costs to be fixed costs. the first set of data that is shown below is based on estimates from the beginning of the year. the second set of data relates to one particular job completed during the year--job bravo. estimated data assembly fabrication total manufacturing overhead costs $ 6,720,000 $ 7,280,000 $ 14,000,000 direct labor-hours 140,000 84,000 224,000 machine-hours 56,000 280,000 336,000 job bravo assembly fabrication total direct labor-hours 29 21 50 machine-hours 21 24 45 required: 1. if wilmington used a plantwide predetermined overhead rate based on direct labor-hours, how much manufacturing overhead would be applied to job bravo