The roberts family just received news from jo-anne roberts' employer that she was receiving a prestigious promotion to corporate vice president. the new position was in new york city, nearly 3,000 miles away from their home in los angeles, california. because jo-anne needed to find a place to live in the city quickly, she agreed to purchase via phone a 2,000 sq. ft. apartment located a few blocks from her new office. jo-anne wired the owner a payment of $500,000 against the $3.7 million negotiated price of the apartment. without waiting for further word from the owner, jo-anne and her husband albert loaded their 3 children and 2 cats into their suv and headed for the "big apple." once arriving new york, the family moved into the apartment and redecorated the entire interior, at a cost of $350,000. after living in the apartment for two months, jo-anne wired another $500,000 payment to the owner, who called immediately after receiving the payment and said the deal was off. can jo-anne keep the apartment?

Intronix uses copy editors, computer graphics specialists, and java programmers to produce ads for magazines and the internet. the average new ad for magazines typically requires 180 hours of a copy editor's time and 135 hours of a computer graphics specialist's time, whereas ads produced for the internet require 35 hours of copy editor time, 195 hours of computer graphics time, and 60 hours of a java programmer's time. lassie food, a dog food manufacturer, has hired intronix to produce ads in the next four week. although currently it considers magazine ads 3 times more valuable than internet ads, it still wishes to have at least 2 of each produced within the next four weeks. intronix has assigned up to 3 copy editors, 4 computer graphics specialists, and 1 java programmer, each committed to work up to 70 hours per week on the project. how many of each type of ad should be produced to maximize the overall value to lassie foods

Areal estate agent is considering changing her cell phone plan. there are three plans to choose from, all of which involve a monthly service charge of $20. plan a has a cost of $.42 a minute for daytime calls and $.17 a minute for evening calls. plan b has a charge of $.52 a minute for daytime calls and $.15 a minute for evening calls. plan c has a flat rate of $80 with 275 minutes of calls allowed per month and a charge of $.38 per minute beyond that, day or evening. a. determine the total charge under each plan for this case: 150 minutes of day calls and 70 minutes of evening calls in a month. (do not round intermediate calculations. round your answer to 2 decimal places. omit the "$" sign in your response.)c. if the agent will use the service for daytime calls, over what range of call minutes will each plan be optimal? (round each answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference point itself in each answer.)d. suppose that the agent expects both daytime and evening calls. at what point (i. e., percentage of total call minutes used for daytime calls) would she be indifferent between plans a and b?

Utilization will always be lower than efficiency because: a. effective capacity is greater than design capacityb. expected output is less than actual output. c. effective capacity equals design capacity. d. effective capacity is less than design capacity. e. expected output is less than rated capacity.