Simone is a hard-working college junior. one tuesday, she decides to work nonstop until she has answered 200 practice problems for her chemistry course. she starts work at 8: 00 am and uses a table to keep track of her progress throughout the day. she notices that as she gets tired, it takes her longer to solve each problem. timetotal problems answered8: 00 am 09: 00 am 8010: 00 am 14011: 00 am 180noon 200use the table to answer the following questions. the marginal, or additional, gain from simone's second hour of work, from 9: 00 am to 10: 00 am, is problems. the marginal gain from simone's fourth hour of work, from 11: 00 am to noon, is problems. later, the teaching assistant in simone's chemistry course gives her some advice. "based on past experience," the teaching assistant says, "working on 70 problems raises a student's exam score by about the same amount as reading the textbook for 1 hour." for simplicity, assume students always cover the same number of pages during each hour they spend reading. given this information, in order to use her 4 hours of study time to get the best exam score possible, how many hours should she have spent working on problems, and how many should she have spent reading?

What was involved in the american express bluework program? select one: a. employees are provided with opportunities for flexible arrangements b. a system that tracks the hours each employee works in a given day c. employees can work on tasks they choose, as long as they are in the office d. employees who are wary of newer technologies e. employees are provided with better office facilities so they stay in the office longer?

Minolta inc. is considering a project that has the following cash flow and wacc data. what is the project's mirr? note that a project's projected mirr can be less than the wacc (and even negative), in which case it will be rejected. wacc: 10.00% year 0 1 2 3 4 cash flows -$850 300 $320 $340 $360

Gino's restaurant is a popular restaurant in boston, massachusetts. the owner of the restaurant has been trying to better understand costs at the restaurant and has hired a student intern to conduct an activity-based costing study. the intern, in consultation with the owner, identified the following major activities: activity cost pool activity measure serving a party of diners number of parties served serving a diner number of diners served serving drinks number of drinks ordered some costs, such as the cost of cleaning the linens that cover the restaurant's tables, vary with the number of parties served. other costs, such as washing plates and glasses, depends on the number of diners served or the number of drinks served. data concerning these activities are shown below. serving a party serving a dinner serving drinks total total cost $47,600 $153,000 $59,800 $260,400 total activity 7,000 parties 30,000 diners 46,000 drinks prior to the activity-based costing study, the owner knew very little about the costs of the restaurant. she knew that the total cost for the month was $260,400 and that 30,000 diners had been served. therefore, the average cost per diner was $8.68.required: 1. compute the activity rates for each of the three activities 2. according to the activity-based costing system, what is the total cost of serving each of the following parties of diners? a. a party of four diners who ordered three drinks in total b. a party of two diners who do not order any drinks c. a lone diner who orders two drinks 3. convert the total costs you computed in part (1) above to costs per diner. in other words, what is the average cost per diner for serving each of the following parties: a. a party of four diners who order three drinks in total b. a party of two diner who do not order any drinks c. a lone diner who orders two drinks 4. why do the costs per diner for the three different parties differ from each other and from the overall average coast of $9.80 per diner?