A financial company advertises on television that they will pay you $60,000 now in exchange for annual payments of $9,500 that you are expected to receive for a legal settlement over the next 12 years. You estimate the time value of money at 10 percent. (a) Calculate the present value of the annual payments. Use Exhibit 1-D. (Round time value factor to 3 decimal places and final answer to the nearest whole number.) (b) Would you accept this offer

Needs to schedule the staffing of the center. it is open from 8am until midnight. larry has monitored the usage of the center at various times of the day and determined that the following number of computer consultants are required: time of dayminimum number of consultants required to be on duty8 am-noon4noon-4 pm84pm-8pm108pm-midnight6 two types of computer consultants can be hired: full-time and part-time. the full- time consultants work for eight consecutive hours in any of the shifts: morning (8am- 4pm), afternoon (noon-8pm) and evening (4pm-midnight). full-time consultants are paid $14 per hour. part-time consultants can be hired to work any of the four shifts listed in the table. part-time consultants are paid $12 per hour. an additional requirement is that during every time period, there must be at least two full-time consultants on duty for every part-time consultant on duty. larry would like to determine how many full-time and part-time consultants should work each shift to meet the above requirements at the minimum possible cost. formulate this as an lp problem. you must define your variables clearly

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You hear your supervisor tell another supervisor that a fire drill will take place later today when the fire alarm sounds that afternoon you should