A Singapore company manufactures 50-inch and 75-inch rear projection television sets. Each 50-inch set contributes $200 to profits and each 75-inch set contributes $475 to profits. The company has purchase commitments for 500 50-inch sets and 200 75-inch sets for the next month so they want to make at least that many. Although they think they can sell all the 50-inch sets that they could currently make, they do not think they can sell more than 375 75-inch sets. Their factory capacity allows them to make only 975 sets of both sizes total. Formulate as a linear programming problem.
You operate your own small building company and have decided to bid on a government contract to build a pedestrian walkway in a national park during the coming winter. The walkway is to be of standard government design and should involve no unexpected costs. Your present capacity utilization rate is moderate and allows sufficient scope to understand this contract, if you win it. You calculate your incremental costs to be $268,000 and your fully allocated costs to be $440,000. Your usual practice is to add between 60% and 80% to your incremental costs, depending on capacity utilization rate and other factors. You expect three other firms to also bid on this contract, and you have assembled the following competitor intelligence about those companies.
Use the Internet or Strayer online databases to research five (5) of what you believe to be the most important and pressing economic issues that confront the United States healthcare industry today and will continue to do so into the next decade. Provide a review of these issues in a ten to twelve (10-12) page paper in which you: Provide a detailed description of the issues that you have researched. Analyze the most significant economic effects of the researched issues on healthcare industry. Provide at least two (2) examples of these issues to support your response. Suggest specific strategies that relevant entities / stakeholders may use to address the selected issues from an economic perspective. Justify your response. Determine the strategic manner in which the United States can apply best economic best practices from other countries in addressing these issues. Assess the likelihood of government and or private sector effectively addressing the issues. Use at least ten (10) current references. Five (5) of these references must be from current peer-reviewed sources to support and substantiate your comments and perspectives. Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Imagine that you are a financial manager researching investments for your client that align with its investment goals. Use the Internet or other sources to research any U.S. publicly traded company that you may consider as an investment opportunity for your client. (Note: Please ensure that you are able to find enough information about this company in order to complete this assignment. You will create an appendix, in which you will insert related information.) The assignment covers the following topics: Rationale for choosing the company for which to invest Ratio analysis Stock price analysis Recommendations Write a ten to fifteen (10-15) page paper in which you:
PSYCH 550 Week 1 Individual Assignment Learning Paper Prepare a 700 to 1,050-word paper in which you examine the concept of learning. As a part of your examination, be sure to address the following items: Describe the concept of learning. Distinguish between learning and performance. Compare and contrast the conceptual approaches to the study of learning. PSYCH 550 Week 2 Individual Assignment Simple Stimulus Learning Paper
Description: QNT 351 Entire Course / QNT 351 Full Course QNT 351 Week 1 Complete DQs (1) How would you define statistics? How is statistics used in business decision making? (2) What is the importance of statistics in business decision making? Describe a business situation where statistics was used in making a decision.
Write a 350- to 500-word summary explaining the differences between revenue expenditures and capital expenditures during a useful life and identifying any similarities. Briefly explain the entries of revenue expenditures and capital expenditures.
(TCO A) You are responsible for developing a security evaluation process that can be used to assess various operating systems both during and after development. List the five most desirable qualities your evaluation process should have and explain why they are important. (Be sure to address qualities of the evaluation process, not specific metrics for assessment of operating systems. (Points : 40) . (TCO B) The Open Systems Interconnection model is inherently inefficient. On the source host, each layer must take the work of higher layers, add some result, and pass the work to lower layers. On the destination host, each layer must process these results from lower layers and pass the appropriate information to upper layers. Surely this wrapping and unwrapping process is inefficient. Assess the security advantage of this layered approach. (Points : 40)
Review the list of names provided in the University of Phoenix Material: Creative Genius List. Select two individuals who are famous for their creative ideas (one from each column). Research their biographies in the University Library and/or on the Internet. Write a 700 to 1,050 word paper to include the following: •Information about each of the thinker's unique contributions to society •The problems or issues that their ideas sought to solve •A description of the solutions and how his or her ideas were implemented
This week's Assignment consists of watching a scenario about Sandwich Blitz, Inc. and answering questions regarding the use of new technology as a means of improving communication between employees and customers. Sandwich Blitz, Inc. has a great problem...an increase in the number of customers! Employees have been consistently reporting that they are overwhelmed by the volume of customers and management has noticed that the number of reported errors in customer orders has increased. Dalman and Lei have decided to adopt an e-customer order system that will allow customers to input their own orders. This would address the issue of employees being overwhelmed by the increased pace of the workplace.