The Situation: You are in need of a new washer and dryer and the set you would like costs $1,600. You do not have access to enough cash to pay for the washer and dryer in full at time of purchase and are exploring your financing options. You have seen the following advertisement on television: Paying $100 a month will work with your budget. You also have that emergency credit card in your wallet that charges 24% annually compounded monthly. Which of these two methods of financing would be your best option? Your Mission: Evaluate the two financing options and decide which one is better for you. Include the following in your report: The decision criteria you used to make your decision (such as effective interest rate). The calculation of your decision criteria for each alternative. The decision you made and why you made it. Any assumptions you felt you needed to compare the alternatives. Submission Requirements: Submit your report as a file upload. If you choose to make your calculations using Excel, include the corresponding Excel file.

According to the law of demand, there is an inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded. that is, the demand curve for goods and services slopes downward. why?

When making broccoli cream soup, the broccoli and aromatics should be a. burned. b. simmered. c. puréed. d. sweated.

Blue computers, a major pc manufacturer in the united states, currently has plants in kentucky and pennsylvania. the kentucky plant has a capacity of 1 million units a year and the pennsylvania plant has a capacity of 1.5 million units a year. the firm divides the united states into five markets: northeast, southeast, midwest, south, and west. each pc sells for $1,000. the firm anticipates a 50 perc~nt growth in demand (in each region) this year (after which demand will stabilize) and wants to build a plant with a capacity of 1.5 million units per year to accommodate the growth. potential sites being considered are in north carolina and california. currently the firm pays federal, state, and local taxes on the income from each plant. federal taxes are 20 percent of income, and all state and local taxes are 7 percent of income in each state. north carolina has offered to reduce taxes for the next 10 years from 7 percent to 2 percent. blue computers would like to take the tax break into consideration when planning its network. consider income over the next 10 years in your analysis. assume that all costs remain unchanged over the 10 years. use a discount factor of 0.1 for your analysis. annual fixed costs, production and shipping costs per unit, and current regional demand (before the 50 percent growth) are shown in table 5-13. (a) if blue computers sets an objective of minimizing total fixed and variable costs, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? (b) if blue computers sets an objective of maximizing after-tax profits, where should they build the new plant? how should the network be structured? variable production and shipping cost ($/unit) annual fixed cost northeast southeast midwest south west (million$) kentucky 185 180 175 175 200 150 pennsylvania 170 190 180 200 220 200 n. carolina 180 180 185 185 215 150 california 220 220 195 195 175 150 demand ('000 units/month) 700 400 400 300 600