An automobile manufacturer is converting an assembly line from standard vehicles to hybrid vehicle production. Conversion will cost $100 million. Production capacity will be 4000 vehicles in the first year and will increase by 1000 vehicles per year for all future years. Each hybrid earns a net profit of $5,000.a. If the interest rate is 15%, how many years will it take until the present worth of the net benefits equals the $100 million initial cost? Report your answer to 2 decimal places. b. Using the simple payback method, how many years will it take the $100 million investment to pay back? Report your answer to 2 decimal places. c. Based on your answers to parts a. and b. would you recommend this investment? Why or why not?

Consider the market for gasoline. suppose that, in a competitive market without government regulations, the equilibrium price of gasoline is $3.00 per gallon, and employees at gas stations earn $17.50 per hour. complete the following table by indicating whether each of the statements is an example of a price ceiling or a price floor and whether it results in a shortage or a surplus or has no effect on the price and quantity that prevail in the market. statement price control effect the government has instituted a legal minimum price of $3.40 per gallon for gasoline. the government prohibits gas stations from selling gasoline for more than $3.40 per gallon. due to new regulations, gas stations that would like to pay better wages in order to hire more workers are prohibited from paying more than $14.50 per hour.

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.

What term is used to describe the outsourcing of logistics? a. shipper managed inventoryb. hollow logistics(smi)c. sub-logisticsd. e-logisticse. third-party logistics (3pl)