To boost sales, pfisher announces a new price structure for disposable surgical packages. although the price break no longer is available at 200 units, pfisher now offers an even greater discount if larger quantities are purchased. on orders of 1 to 499 packages, the price is $50.35 per package. for orders of 500 or more, the price per unit is $47.70. ordering costs, annual holding costs, and annual demand remain at $68 per order, 30 percent of the per-unit cost, and 470 packages per year, respectively. what is the new lot size?

Add the mips assembly language instructions (after main: ) to complete the following (in this order). do not skip steps. use other registers as needed. actions: 1. initialize the register $s0 to 35 2. prompt the user to enter a number, read the number and then put it into register $s1 3. prompt the user to enter a number, read the number and then put it into register $s2 4. store the value in $s1 into the memory at address 0x10010000. 5. store the value in $s2 into the memory at address 0x10010004. 6. calculate the value of $s0 - $s1 $s2 and store the result in the memory at address 0x10010008. 7. print the following output each on its own line. you will need to determine the location of each of the strings from the beginning of the memory segment a. your name b. the value in address 0x10010000 c. the value in address 0x10010004 d. the value in address 0x10010008 8. exchange or swap the values in $s1 and $s2 9. set the value in $s0 to -$s0

8. agreement and disagreement among economists suppose that bob, an economist from a university in arizona, and cho, an economist from a public television program, are arguing over saving incentives. the following dialogue shows an excerpt from their debate: cho: i think it's safe to say that, in general, the savings rate of households in today's economy is much lower than it really needs to be to sustain an improvement in living standards. bob: i think a switch from the income tax to a consumption tax would bring growth in living standards. cho: you really think households would change their saving behavior enough in response to this to make a difference? because i don't. the disagreement between these economists is most likely due to . despite their differences, with which proposition are two economists chosen at random most likely to agree? rent ceilings reduce the quantity and quality of available housing. immigrants receive more in government benefits than they contribute in taxes. having a single income tax rate would improve economic performance.

Your father's employer was just acquired, and he was given a severance payment of $375,000, which he invested at a 7.5% annual rate. he now plans to retire, and he wants to withdraw $35,000 at the end of each year, starting at the end of this year. how many years will it take to exhaust his funds, i. e., run the account down to zero? a. 22.50 b. 23.63 c. 24.81 d. 26.05 e. 27.35