Starbucks's corporate office in Seattle offers Cold Pop, a beverage stand open to employees and visitors. It's open three days a week and serves about 200 drinks a day for $5 per beverage. Cold Pop serves potential new menu items, and employees who purchase the new items also get to vote on the item. Based on the number of votes and positive comments that the new products receive, Starbucks employees begin analyzing the business opportunity for the product. The opportunity to sample and vote on menu prototypes for Starbucks represents the stage of the new-product development process.

On january 1, 2015, jon sports has a bond payable of $200,000. during 2015, it pays off $20,000 of the outstanding bond principal and issues a new $70,000 bond. there are no other transactions related to the bond payable account. what is jon sports' december 31, 2015, bond payable balance?

Which of the following housing decisions provides a person with both housing and an investment? a. selling a share in a cooperative. b. buying a single-family home. c. renting an apartment. d. subletting a condominium. 2b2t

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1