Phillip witt, president of witt input devices, wishes to create a portfolio of local suppliers for his new line of keyboards. as the suppliers all reside in a location prone to hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, and earthquakes, phillip believes that the probability in any year of a "super-event" that might shut down all suppliers at the same time at least 2 weeks is 4%. such a total shutdown would cost the company approximately $450 comma 000. he estimates the "unique-event" risk for any of the suppliers to be 5%. assuming that the marginal cost of managing an additional supplier is $16 comma 000 per year, how many suppliers should witt input devices use? assume that up to three nearly identical local suppliers are available. find the emv for alternatives using 1, 2, or 3 suppliers. emv(1)equals$ nothing (enter your response rounded to the nearest whole number.)

The beach dude (bd) employs a legion of current and former surfers as salespeople who push its surfing-oriented products to various customers (usually retail outlets). this case describes bd's sales and collection process. each bd salesperson works with a specific group of customers throughout the year. in fact, they often surf with their customers to try out the latest surf gear. the bd salespeople act laid-back, but they work hard for their sales. each sale often involves hours of surfing with their customers while the customers sample all the latest surf wear. because bd makes the best surfing products, the customers look forward to the visits from the bd salespeople. and they often buy a lot of gear. each sale is identified by a unique invoice number and usually involves many different products. customers pay for each sale in full within 30 days, but they can combine payments for multiple sales. bd manages its clothing inventory by item (e. g., xl bd surfer logo t-shirts), identified by product number, but it also classifies the items by clothing line (the lines are differentiated by price points as well as the intended use of the clothing, e. g., surfing products, casual wear, . draw a uml class diagram that describes the beach dudes sales and collection process. b. using microsoft access, implement a relational database from your uml class diagram. identify at least three fields per table. c. describe how you would use the relational database to determine the beach dude’s accounts receivable.

The economic advisor of a large tire store proposes the demand function d(p)equalsstartfraction 1900 over p minus 40 endfraction , where d(p) is the number of tires of one brand and size that can be sold in one day at price p. answer parts (a) through (e) below. a. recalling that the demand must be positive, what is the domain of this function? the domain consists of all possible values of ▼ for which ▼ p d(p) ▼ does not exist. is positive. is zero. is negative. exists.

While on vacation in las vegas jennifer, who is from utah, wins a progressive jackpot playing cards worth $15,875 at the casino royale. what implication does she encounter when she goes to collect her prize?