1. preston, inc., manufactures wooden shelving units for collecting and sorting mail. the company expects to produce 480 units in july and 400 units in august. each unit requires 10 feet of wood at a cost of $1.50 per foot. preston wants to always have 300 feet of wood on hand in materials inventory. compute preston’s raw materials purchases budget for july and august. july augustbudgeted raw materials purchases $ $2. preston, inc., manufactures wooden shelving units for collecting and sorting mail. the company expects to produce 480 units in july and 400 units in august. each unit requires 1.75 hours of direct labor, and labor wages average $9 per hour. compute preston’s direct labor budget for july and august. july augustbudgeted direct labor cost $ $

The following table gives the map coordinates and the shipping loads for a set of cities that we wish to connect through a central hub.,(7,(4,(7,(6,(2,( 2,) for the location of the proposed new central hub, the coordinates should be near: x==) if the shipments from city a double, for the location of the proposed new central hub, the coordinates should be near: x==.926.865.017.21

Perry is a freshman, he estimates that the cost of tuition, books, room and board, transportation, and other incidentals will be $30000 this year. he expects these costs to rise about $1500 each year while he is in college. if it will take him 5 years to earn his bs, what is the present cost of his degree at an interest rate of 6%? if he earns and extra $10000 annually for 40 years, what is the present worth of his degree.?

Rate of return douglas keel, a financial analyst for orange industries, wishes to estimate the rate of return for two similar-risk investments, x and y. douglas's research indicates that the immediate past returns will serve as reasonable estimates of future returns. a year earlier, investment x had a market value of $27 comma 000; and investment y had a market value of $46 comma 000. during the year, investment x generated cash flow of $2 comma 025 and investment y generated cash flow of $ 6 comma 770. the current market values of investments x and y are $28 comma 582 and $46 comma 000, respectively. a. calculate the expected rate of return on investments x and y using the most recent year's data. b. assuming that the two investments are equally risky, which one should douglas recommend? why?