Dutch Bros. Coffee is a privately held drive-through coffee company, with headquarters in Grants Pass Oregon and over 290 locations in seven states (Oregon, Washington, California, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado). Its core values are focused on Speed, Quality and Service. Its strategy is to grow the drive-through coffee market. While it is growing quickly its growth hasn't taken the company away from its roots and the company donates over $2 million a year to its local communities and nonprofit organizations. The company is currently considering two possible capital investment plans. Plan A would involve opening 100 new shops in Texas at a cost of $8,940,000. Expected net cash inflows are expected to be $1,600,000 per year for 20 years with an estimated residual value of $1,000,000. Plan B is to invest in solar roof top panels at their current drive-through shops at a cost of $8,540,000 with no residual value. This plan is expected to generate net cash inflows of $1,400,000 from savings in electricity per year for 25 years. Dutch Bros. uses straight-line depreciation and requires an annual return of 8%.

Required:
Compute the payback period, the ARR, NPV, and approximate IRR of these two expansion plans.

Imagine us is a startup that offers high definition 3d prenatal ultrasounds for high-end customers. the service process includes four activities that are conducted in the sequence described below. (the time required for each activity is shown in parentheses): activity 1: welcome a patient and explain the procedure. (20 minutes)activity 2: prep the patient (e.g., show them to the room, apply ultrasound gel). (17 minutes) (*your id number represents the amount of time needed to complete this task)activity 3: take images. (5 minutes)activity 4: discuss diagnostic with patient. (20 minutes)at each location there are employees (servers) s1, s2, and s3. the assignment of tasks to servers is the following: s1 does activities 1 and 2.s2 does activity 3.s3 does activity 4.a. what is the capacity of this process (in customers per hour)? b. suppose 3 patients arrive every hour on average. ignoring any “start of day” or “end of day” effects, what are the utilizations of all three servers (%)? c. suppose each activity can be done by any server and any server can do any set of activities. however, each activity is done by only one server. for example, a possible assignment includes: s1 does activity 1, s2 does activity 2, and s3 does activities 3 and 4. of course, the original assignment of servers to activities is also feasible. what is the maximum capacity of the process (in customers per hour)? d. now consider the capacity measures in (c) and (a), what is the percentage change? why can you improve capacity without using additional resources? (there is no free lunch, right? )note: for all hw assignments, show your process of getting the results. only providing the final answers is not acceptable and will get 0%. if necessary, use a separate sheet of paper to show your work.