The utilization factor for a system is defined as: a. the average time a customer spends in the system.
b. the percent idle time.
c. the mean number of arrivals per period divided by the mean number of customers served per period.
d. the average time a customer spends waiting in the queue

You want to paint your room yellow, so you get some samples at the paint store. when you hold the sample against your white wall, it looks different from the way it looks against the green curtain. a psychologist would attribute this to perceptual constancy. visual paradoxes. contrast effects. threshold differences.

howard, fine, & howard is an advertising agency. the firm uses an activity-based costing system to allocate overhead costs to its services. information about the firm's activity cost pool rates follows: stooge company was a client of howard, fine, & howard. recently, 7 administrative assistant hours, 3 new ad campaigns, and 8 meeting hours were incurred for the stooge company account. using the activity-based costing system, how much overhead cost would be allocated to the stooge company account?

Suppose your rich uncle gave you $50,000, which you plan to use for graduate school. you will make the investment now, you expect to earn an annual return of 6%, and you will make 4 equal annual withdrawals, beginning 1 year from today. under these conditions, how large would each withdrawal be so there would be no funds remaining in the account after the 4th withdraw?