Residents of Columbia, MD place their trash at the curb each Wednesday morning to be picked up by municipal crews. Experience shows that the total amount of trash put out has a normal distribution with a mean of 40 tons and a standard deviation of 9 tons. Crews of full-time city employees collect the trash. Each crew can collect 6 tons of trash per day. The city has plenty of trucks of the kind used for trash collection. The marginal cost of operating one trash crew for one day including both personnel-related and truck-related costs is $800. Whatever trash remains at the end of the workday must be collected that evening by an outside contractor who charges $650 per ton.

Brandon, a manager at fairpro technologies corp., is required to provide individual performance feedback to his subordinates. in this scenario, the communication between brandon and his subordinates is at a(n) level

Mr. smith recently faced a choice between being (a) an economics profes-sor, which pays $60,000/yr, or (b) a safari leader, which pays $50,000/yr. after careful deliberation, smith took the safari job, but it was a close call. "for a dollar more," he said, "i'd have gone the other way."now smith's brother-in-law approaches him with a business proposition. the terms are as follows: - smith must resign his safari job to work full-time in his brother-in-law's business.- smith must give his brother-in-law an interest-free loan of $100,000, which will be repaid in full if and when smith leaves the business. (smith currently has much more than $100,000 in the the business will pay smith a salary of $70,000/yr. he will receive no other payment from the business.the interest rate is 10 percent per year. apart from salary considerations, smith feels that working in the business would be just as enjoyable as being an economics professor. for simplicity, assume there is no uncertainty regarding either smith's salary in the proposed business or the security of his monetary investment in it. should smith join his brother-in-law and, if so, how small would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it not worthwhile for him to join? if not, how large would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it worthwhile for him to join?

Why does an organization prepare a balance sheet? a. to reveal what the organization owns and owes at a point in time b. to reveal how well the company utilizes its cash c. to calculate retained earnings for a given accounting period d. to calculate gross profit for a given accounting period