A hotel provides room service for its guests. The process for room service begins with a room service manager who takes orders by phone at an average of 2 minutes per order. The manger then send the order to the kitchen, where it takes a cook an average of 16 minutes to prepare the food for each order. There are four cooks in the kitchen. The room service manager also sends the beverage included in the order to the bar at the same time the order is sent to the kitchen (that is, parallel processes). It takes 3 minutes for a bartender to fill the order. When the kitchen and bar orders are both ready. A waiter takes them to the room and bills the guest. There are six waiters to provide the service, and each order takes 20 minutes for the waiter to complete. Required:
a. What is the capacity of the process, and what is the bottleneck?
b. What is the throughput time of a typical order?
c. Assume that on Friday evenings an average of 10 room-service orders per hour are placed. How many orders are in the system on average on Friday nights?

Paar corporation bought 100 percent of kimmel, inc., on january 1, 2012. on that date, paar’s equipment (10-year life) has a book value of $420,000 but a fair value of $520,000. kimmel has equipment (10-year life) with a book value of $272,000 but a fair value of $400,000. paar uses the equity method to record its investment in kimmel. on december 31, 2014, paar has equipment with a book value of $294,000 but a fair value of $445,200. kimmel has equipment with a book value of $190,400 but a fair value of $357,000. the consolidated balance for the equipment account as of december 31, 2014 is $574,000. what would be the impact on consolidated balance for the equipment account as of december 31, 2014 if the parent had applied the initial value method rather than the equity method? the balance in the consolidated equipment account cannot be determined for the initial value method using the information given. the consolidated equipment account would have a higher reported balance. the consolidated equipment account would have a lower reported balance. no effect: the method the parent uses is for internal reporting purposes only and has no impact on consolidated totals.

Acompany that adapts its product mix to meet the needs of a new market is using which of the following global marketing strategies market development diversification strategy product development undiversified

Answer the questions about keynesian theory, market economics, and government policy. keynes believed that there were "sticky" wages and that recessions are caused by increases in prices. decreases in supply. decreases in aggregate demand (ad). increases in unemployment. keynes believed the government should increase ad through increased government spending, but not tax cuts. control wages to increase employment because of sticky wages. increase employment through tax cuts only. increase as through tax cuts. increase ad through either increased government spending or tax cuts. intervene when individual markets fail by controlling prices and production.