Discount-mart (see problem 16.8), as part of its new lean program, has signed a long-term contract with specialty lighting and will place orders electronically for its halogen lamps. ordering costs will drop to $.50 per order, but discount mart also reassessed its carrying costs and raised them to $20 per lamp.

a) what is the new economic order quantity?
b) how many orders will now be placed?
c) what is the total annual cost of managing the inventory with this policy?

For a multistate lottery, the following probability distribution represents the cash prizes of the lottery with their corresponding probabilities. complete parts (a) through (c) below. x (cash prize, $) p(x) grand prizegrand prize 0.000000008860.00000000886 200,000 0.000000390.00000039 10,000 0.0000016950.000001695 100 0.0001582930.000158293 7 0.0039114060.003911406 4 0.0080465690.008046569 3 0.012865710.01286571 0 0.975015928140.97501592814 (a) if the grand prize is $13 comma 000 comma 00013,000,000, find and interpret the expected cash prize. if a ticket costs $1, what is your expected profit from one ticket? the expected cash prize is $nothing.

Working with a word processor requires more than just a knowledge of typing. a good word processor includes a number of tools designed to aid in formatting documents to meet the needs of the reader. in this project you will use your word-processing skills and a basic knowledge of apa style to format a research paper. the skills you will need for this project include the following: adjusting line spacing (double-spacing) breaking text into pages (page break) centering text changing the font, style, and size of the text editing text inserting page numbers inserting a table using spell check

Cash flows during the first year of operations for the harman-kardon consulting company were as follows: cash collected from customers, $385,000; cash paid for rent, $49,000; cash paid to employees for services rendered during the year, $129,000; cash paid for utilities, $59,000. in addition, you determine that customers owed the company $69,000 at the end of the year and no bad debts were anticipated. also, the company owed the gas and electric company $2,900 at year-end, and the rent payment was for a two-year period.