2.(1) The claim by a weight loss Company is that on average, the client will lose 10 pounds over
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first 2 weeks. 50 people who joined the programme are sampled, their weight loss is 9 pounds with a standard deviation of 2.8 pounds. Can we conclude at the .05 level that a person joining the programme will lose less than 10 pounds?
(2) The following is a random sample of 90-day futures prices in dollars for 1 troy oz. of silver from The Wall Street Journal issues in May and June of 1997: 4.74, 4.77, 4.87, 4.91, 4.83, 4.72, 4.92, 4.86, 4.97, 4.71, 4.90, 4.93, 4.75, 4.88, 4.79, 4.83, 4.89.
Required:
a. Calculate the mean
b. Median
c. Standard deviation of the 90-day future price of silver data
(3) A mining company needs to estimate the average amount of copper ore per ton mined. A random sample of 50 tons gives a sample mean of 146,75 pounds. The population standard deviation is assumed to be 35.2 pounds.
Required:
a. Give a 95% confidence interval for the average amount of copper in the population of tons mined.
b. Give a 90% confidence interval for the average amount of coper per ton
c. Give a 99% confidence interval for the average amount of coper per ton
(4) An e-commerce Website gets 2,385 visitors on a particular day. Among these, 1790 visitors explore the products by looking at more pages at the site. Among these 1790 visitors who explore the products, 387 make a purchase.
Required:
a. If a visitor chosen at random from all those who visited the site, what is the probability that the visitor explored the products
b. If a visitor is chosen at random from all those who visited the site, what is the probability that the visitor made a purchase.
c. If a visitor is chosen at random from all those who explored the products, what is the probability that the visitor made a purchase.
d. Which of the preceding three probabilities is relevant to the design of the home page that leads to product page.
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4.1. A leg of lamb cost $14.88 per kilogram before cooking and the percentage of yield is 83% what is
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the cost per kilogram of the edible of the lamb
Answer with 2 decimal place
2. A beef tenderloin costs $34.17 per kilogram before trimming and the percentage of yield is 80%. What is the cost per kilogram of the usable portion of the beef tenderloin?
(Answer with 2 decimal places)
3. The cost of a portion of roast sirloin of beef with potatoes and vegetables is $4.70. If we desire a 41% food cost, what should the menu price be? Round your answer to the nearest penny.
(Answer with 2 decimal places)
4. The cost of a portion of grilled halibut with boiled potatoes & vegetables is $4.69. If we desire a 27% food cost, what should the menu price be? Round your answer to the nearest penny.
(Answer with 2 decimal places)
5. The cost of a caesar salad is $2.38. If we desire a 31% food cost, what should the menu price be? Round your answer to the nearest penny.
(Answer with 2 decimal places)
6. The cost of a pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw and fries is $3.14. If we desire a 37% food cost, what should the menu price be? Round your answer to the nearest penny.
(Answer with 2 decimal places)
7. The cost of a portion of deep fried chicken with corn fritters and fries is $4.55. If we set a menu price of $15.75, what would the food cost percentage be?
(Answer with 2 decimal places)
8. The cost of a veal piccata complete with penne pomodoro & vegetables is $6.03. If we set a menu price of $18.50, what would the food cost percentage be?
(Answer with 2 decimal places)
9. The cost of a portion of beef goulash complete with spaetzle and vegetables is $5.82. If we set a menu price of $15.50, what would the food cost percentage be?
(Answer with 2 decimal places)
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5.The unit price of market goods is $1. Each person has 8 hours to work each day.
Another couple, Sylvan and
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van and Alex, have the same productivities: Sylvan is identical to Rajan, while Alex
and Esther are identical.
Esther and Rajan both engage in market work. Sylvan works full time at home, so only Alex works in the
market.
a) Given this information, which couple has the higher opportunity cost of home produced goods?
Explain how you determined this. You can add a diagram if that helps, but you are not required
to include one.
b) Can you determine which couple has the higher utility? Explain why or why not.
Suppose now that value of market production for both Alex and Esther increased to $12/per hour.
c) Explain the change in the household joint production possibility frontier generated by this
change.
d) Explain what would happen to each couple’s choice of both household and market produced
goods, using an analysis by means of income and substitution effects.
e) What changes in time allocation for each couple that would be necessary to produce and
consume this new bundle? Briefly explain your reasoning.
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6.You make very good pizzas, so you decide to sell your pizzas on campus. Since the set up for making
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pizza is already available to you, the only cost involved is that of making the pizza, which you calculate to be $ 5 per pizza.
a. What is the cost function?
If 10 pizzas are available in a day, the market offers a price of $ 11 per pizza. If 50 pizzas are available in a day, the market offers a price of $ 7 per pizza.
b. Assuming a linear relationship between price and quantity, find the price that the market offers as a function of the number of pizzas available. You start selling the pizzas.
c. What is revenue as a function of the quantity you sell? What is the profit function?
d. What quantity will maximize your profit? Call it q ∗ 1. What is the maximum profit?
e. If somebody is already supplying 5 pizzas every day, What is the maximum profit that you can make?
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8.Suppose that Wegboys has a supermarket with a downward sloping demand curve in Pilgrim City. It purchases frozen turkeys
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chases frozen turkeys at a constant wholesale price of $1/turkey, which is its full marginal cost for supplying turkeys. During July, only a small number of wealthy people are interested in buying turkeys in Pilgrim. Their demand curve is P = 10 – .02 Q, where P is Wegboys’ retail price for turkeys during the month and Q is the quantity of turkeys purchased. The demand curve for these wealthy people is constant – it is the same curve in both November and July. During November, a large number of less wealthy people enter the market to purchase turkeys for Thanksgiving. Their demand curve for Wegboys’ turkeys is
P = 4 – .0005Q. In other months of the year, they do not purchase turkeys at any price.
a. (5 points) What price should Wegboys charge in July to maximize its profits? Calculate its profits from turkey sales.
b. (5 points) Demonstrate that Wegboys can earn a higher profit if it lowers its retail price for turkeys during November (you can do this without finding the optimal price). Explain the basic economic intuition.
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9.Hello I have two problems to solve the subject is Quantitative Methods for Decision-Making
Problem 2
After graduating from AUD, Salman plans
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m 2
After graduating from AUD, Salman plans to start a book publishing company in the Media City. He did some research and found that the printer will cost Dh 230,000. He estimated that the variable cost per book is Dh 170 and the selling price is Dh 390.
a. How many books must he sell to break even? Also calculate the breakeven in dirham.
b. In addition to the costs given above, if he wants to pay himself a salary of Dh 15,400 per year, what is her breakeven point in units and dirham?
c. In the first three months of his business, he sold 400 books. Suddenly the printer breaks down. He spent Dh 25000 to fix the printer. In addition to 400 books sold, how many more books she should sell to breakeven? Assume that this part of the question is independent, and she does not draw any salary.
Problem 8
A furniture store makes tables and chairs from plywood and glass. The store has 30 units of plywood, 24 units of glass. Each table requires 7 units of plywood three units of glass, whereas each chair requires three units of plywood and two units of glass. The demand for chairs is between 2 and 4. The ratio between the table and chair is at least 1 to 2. A table earns $225 in profit and a chair, $145. The store also wants a minimum profit of $5000. The store wants to determine the number of tables and chairs to make in order to maximize profit. Formulate a linear programming model for this problem
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11.The supply for a particular item is given by the function
S
(
x
)
=
15
+
7
x
. Find the producer's surplus if the equilibrium
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producer's surplus if the equilibrium price of a unit
$
99
.A retailer anticipates selling
7600
units of its product at a uniform rate over the next year. Each time the retailer places an order for
x
units, it is charged a flat fee of
$
100
. Carrying costs are
$
38
per unit per year. How many times should the retailer reorder each year and what should be the lot size to minimize inventory costs? What is the minimum inventory cost?
For a particular commodity, the demand function is
q
=
1
4
(
400
−
p
2
)
.
a
.
Find
ε
when
p
=
8
.A hotel rents
240
rooms at a rate of
$
60
per day. For each
$
1
increase in the rate, three fewer rooms are rented. Find the room rate that maximizes daily revenue.
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15.Question: We are selling a monthly service to a customer at $100. The deal margin at a selling price of
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of $100 equals 20% . Included in the 20% margin is sales commission which equals 10% of the $100 , which is $10. If I decrease the commission to only 3% , $3 instead of the 10%, $10 , what will my new deal margin be?
After we cut the commission on the deal , we are also going to reduce our price to the customer by 6% . What does the 6% represent in terms of overall dollars on the $100 service and what would the deal commission be after this additional change to the financial structure of the deal?
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16.2.
PODStat5 4.E.031.
The standard deviation alone does not measure relative variation. For example, a standard deviation of $1 would be considered
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, a standard deviation of $1 would be considered large if it is describing the variability from store to store in the price of an ice cube tray. On the other hand, a standard deviation of $1 would be considered small if it is describing store-to-store variability in the price of a particular brand of freezer. A quantity designed to give a relative measure of variability is the coefficient of variation. Denoted by CV, the coefficient of variation expresses the standard deviation as a percentage of the mean. It is defined by the formula CV = 100(s/ x ). Consider two samples. Sample 1 gives the actual weight (in ounces) of the contents of cans of pet food labeled as having a net weight of 8 oz. Sample 2 gives the actual weight (in pounds) of the contents of bags of dry pet food labeled as having a net weight of 50 lb. There are weights for the two samples.
Sample 1 7.7 6.8 6.5 7.2 6.5
7.7 7.3 6.6 6.6 6.1
Sample 2 50.7 50.9 50.5 50.3 51.5
47 50.4 50.3 48.7 48.2
(a) For each of the given samples, calculate the mean and the standard deviation. (Round all intermediate calculations and answers to five decimal places.)
For sample 1
Mean
Standard deviation
For sample 2
Mean
Standard deviation
(b) Compute the coefficient of variation for each sample. (Round all answers to two decimal places.)
CV1
CV2
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21.Hello
I am a father of two children, one in the IB DP now, and the other is in 9th grade.
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oking for an online math and SAT/ACT tutor, possibly an IB Math tutor as well.
My children are native English speakers, but go to an international school. They are looking to attend an English speaking school for the university.
Can you please let me know the price range I am expected to pay per hour? Also, I haven’t had some of the best experiences in the past with someone claiming that they could help with SAT only to find out that they weren’t qualified. At this point, I will need a way to demonstrate your expertise as an SAT or ACT tutor. Also, for IB Math, if you are able to do both.
I look forward to hearing from you. Just to let you know, I have other friends looking for a similar tutor. Please make sure to send your CV, and a personal statement if you have one, so I can better understand your teaching/tutoring philosophy better.
Oh yes, where are you located for time zone differences?
Best,
Edward Rochman
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22.Each Tuesday, Ryan Airlines reduces its one-way ticket from Fort Wayne to Chicago from $130 to $60. To receive this
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To receive this special $60 price, the customer must buy a round-trip ticket. Ryan has a nonrefundable 30% penalty fare for cancellation; it estimates that about seven-tenths of 1% will cancel their reservations. The airline also estimates this special price will cause a passenger traffic increase from 350 to 700. Ryan expects revenue for the year to be 55.3% higher than the previous year. Last year, Ryan’s sales were $485,000. To receive the special rate, Janice Miller bought two round-trip tickets. On other airlines, Janice has paid $100 round trip (with no cancellation penalty).
A.Calculate the percent passenger travel will increase.
B.Calculate Janice’s loss if she cancels one round-trip flight.
C.Approximately how many more cancellations can Ryan Airlines expect (after Janice’s cancellation)? (Round down your answer to nearest whole number.)
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24.Suppose that the economy is at full employment (our economy has reached its potential GDP or the maximum that we
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imum that we can normally produce). Now suppose that the Federal Government decides to decrease taxes. If we compare the long run price and GDP levels to the price and GDP levels that existed before the Federal Government’s action, we would find that_______?
A.
Production or the GDP would not increase in the long run.
B.
Prices would decrease in the long run.
C.
A decrease in unemployment would result in the long run.
D.
Producers would increase production in the long run as a result of the Federal Government’s actions
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27.4. Outdoor World buys plastic pools from a supplier with an invoice amount of $36,465. The terms of sale are
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sale are 5/10, n/30. If the
retailer sends a partial payment $8,700 on the discount date.
a. How much credit is taken off the bill due to the partial payment?
b. What is the net amount still due?
5. Jen’s Pottery Shop orders china from a supplier for $240 including $30 freight charges. The terms of sale are 3/10, n/30
ROG. The china arrives on 11/21 and Jen wants to take advantage of the cash discount.
a. As bookkeeper for Jen’s, how much will you send the supplier?
6. A small business receives an invoice for merchandise on August 5. The terms of sale are 2/20, n/30. If the manager elects to take the cash discount, what is the discount date?
7. Price Company received an invoice in the amount of $3,800 dated May 24 for merchandise they purchased. The terms of sale
are 3/15, 2/30, n/45. The Company plans to pay the invoice on June 20th?
a. What is the percentage the company will save by sending it on this date?
8. Luggage World buys briefcases with an invoice date of April 28. The terms of sale are 2/10 EOM. What is the discount date?
9. Chuck’s Chops, an upscale steak house, received an invoice for 800 pounds of baking potatoes with a cost of $.85 per pound.
The terms are 2 ½ /10, n/30. Chuck was unable to pay the bill in full within the discount period but was able to remit a partial
payment of $575.00 within the discount period. How much credit did Chuck receive for his partial payment?
10. A toy store buys stuffed animals with a list price of $17,000. If the wholesaler offers trade discounts of 32/27/15,
a. Find the trade discount amount of the stuffed animals?
11. The invoice on an invoice was February 11th with terms of sale 2/10, 60 Extra.
a. What is the discount date?
b. What is the net date?
12. Stan ordered merchandise on October 26th, the terms of sale for his item was 2/10, ROG. If his item was received on
November 27th?
a. What is the discount date?
b. What is the net date?
13. Josie ordered an item on June 27th with terms of sale 3/15, EOM.
a. What is the discount date?
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28.Spending on health care now constitutes a significant fraction of total expenditure. Understanding the efficacy of this spending is therefore
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he efficacy of this spending is therefore relatively important. When it comes to contagious diseases, there are generally two strategies that can be adopted. The first involves prevention, which includes vaccinations to lower or eliminate the risk of contracting a disease. The second involves treatment of those unfortunate enough to get sick, treatment typically requires some form of a drug. Since pharmaceutical companies can produce both vaccines and drugs, we would like to understand the incentives they have to develop each type of medicine. To explore this question, consider a population of 100 consumers, 90 of whom have a low disease risk, say 10%. The remaining ten have a high risk – to make things simple, assume they are certain to contract the disease. In addition, suppose the disease generates personal harm equal to the loss of $100 for each individual when they are infected. Suppose also that pharmaceuticals of either form (vaccines or drugs) are costless to produce (once R & D has occurred) and are perfectly effective
Question 2. What price would a profit maximising monopolist charge for a vaccine? What are the monopoly profits on the vaccine? What is the efficient outcome (i.e. SMB = SMC)? What is the welfare under the monopoly and at the efficient allocation?
Question 3.Now consider the demand for the drug (assume that the vaccine is not available). Construct the demand function for the drug and plot it on a diagram. What price would a profit maximising monopolist charge for the drug? What are the monopoly profits from the drug? What is the efficient outcome? What is the welfare under the monopoly and at the efficient allocation?
Question 4. If the R&D costs of the vaccine and drug are the same, what will the pharmaceutical company do? Explain your answer in terms of the variation in the willingness to pay and the size of the R& D costs. What would a social planner do?
Question 5. What are the R&D cost for the vaccine and the R&D cost for the vaccine drug that would make a pharmaceutical company indifferent between developing the vaccine and the drug? Is the social planner indifferent in this case? Explain any difference.
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29.I have this problem need to be slove.
1. Draw a supply and demand diagram representing the market for T-bone
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for T-bone steaks (a relatively good cut of meat). Indicate the equilibrium price, quantity, consumer surplus, producer surplus and total expenditure. Is the equilibrium quantity efficient?
2. Show the effect on the market for T-bone steaks that you would expect if incomes increase. Show the change in price and quantity. What type of good do you think T-bone steaks are?
3. Show the effect on the market for T-bone steaks that you would expect if the price of baby-back ribs decreases. Show the change in price and quantity. What do you think the relationship is between steak and ribs?
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