You are considering an investment of $10,000 in a mutual fund with a 2% front load and an annual expense ratio of 0.5%. You are also considering an investment in a bank CD paying 2% interest per year. Assuming risk is constant across the two investments, if you plan to invest for four years, what annual rate of return must the mutual fund earn for you to be better off in the mutual fund than in the bank CD

Acustomer has come to your department with an urgent question. you promised her that you would collect information about her question and answer it by noon. it will take you at least 20 minutes to gather the information needed to provide an answer. it is now 11: 50 a.m. your supervisor just scheduled a 30-minute meeting to start at noon. this meeting is for all employees in your department. you decide to:

Acompany manufactures hair dryers. it buys some of the components, but it makes the heating element, which it can produce at the rate of 920 per day. hair dryers are assembled daily, 250 days a year, at a rate of 360 per day. because of the disparity between the production and usage rates, the heating elements are periodically produced in batches of 2,300 units. a. approximately how many batches of heating elements are produced annually? b. if production on a batch begins when there is no inventory of heating elements on hand, how much inventory will be on hand 4 days later? c. what is the average inventory of elements, assuming each production cycle begins when there are none on hand?

Abank has $132,000 in excess reserves and the required reserve ratio is 11 percent. this means the bank could have in checkable deposit liabilities and in (total) reserves.