On April 8, 2010, Dreamland Park purchased a ferris wheel for $300,000. The estimated life of the ferris wheel was 10 years, with an estimated residual value of $60,000. The service life in terms of output is estimated at 30,000 hours of operation. Compute the depreciation on this ferris wheel in 2010 and 2011 using the following methods.
2010 2011
a. Straight-line (with half-year convention) $ $
b. 200%-declining-balance (with half-year convention) $ $
c. 150%-declining-balance (with half-year convention) $ $
d. Units-of-output method (hours of operation:
(2600 in 2010, 6,000 in 2011) $ $
e. Straight-line (with depreciation calculated to the
nearest whole month) $ $

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Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

What has caroline's payment history been like? support your answer with two examples