Acleaning company uses $10 of chemicals, $40 of labor, and $5 of misc. expenses for each house it cleans. after some quality complaints, the company has decided to increase its use of chemicals by 50%. by what percentage has multifactor productivity fallen?

In a fixed-term, level-payment reverse mortgage, sometimes called a reverse annuity mortgage, or ram, a lender agrees to pay the homeowner a monthly payment, or annuity, and expects to be repaid from the homeowner’s equity when he or she sells the home or obtains other financing to pay off the ram. consider a household that owns a $150,000 home free and clear of mortgage debt. the ram lender agrees to a $100,000 ram for 10 years at 6 percent. assume payments are made annually, at the beginning of each year to the homeowner. calculate the annual payment on the ram.