Charlie is trying hard to lose his "spare tire" before his wedding. he has two months to get ready for the event. he decides to go about his weight loss systemically. the first week, charlie exercises vigorously. the second week, he gives up meat. the third week he drinks large amounts of water. the fourth week, he eats just bananas. he continues to vary his approach each week. at the end of his eight-week experiment, he concludes that his best weight loss comes from exercise. identify the independent and dependent variables in this scenario.

In return for their with optimizing his painting project, the castle servant informed poly and digit that he saw someone dressed as the king leaving behind a trail of crumbs as he walked into the jester's room late last night. poly and digit have finally found the crisp-collecting culprit — it turns out the jester's shoe size and hair color match the clues that were found! in gratitude, poly and digit agree to the servant with his current task of replacing all of the tables and chairs in the castle. his goal is to determine which furniture company should produce the new furniture. he receives information from a company that customizes elegant furniture, and he wants to analyze the company's production process in order to calculate some problems about cost and availability. read the following scenario, and assist poly and digit as they the servant with his calculations. the fit for a king furniture company requires 2020 hours of labor to produce a standard table, and a chair requires 1212 hours of labor. the labor available is 565565 hours per week. the company can produce at most 3535 chairs per week.

Pestiferous manufacturing produces a chemical pesticide and uses process costing. there are three processing departmentslong dash​mixing, ​refining, and packaging. on january​ 1, the first departmentlong dashmixinglong dashhad no beginning inventory. during​ january, 48,000 fl. oz. of chemicals were started in production. of​ these, 40,000 fl. oz. were​ completed, and​ 8,000 fl. oz. remained in process. in the mixing​ department, all direct materials are added at the beginning of the production​ process, and conversion costs are applied evenly throughout the process. at the end of​ january, the equivalent unit data for the mixing department were as​ follows: units equivalent units equivalent units units to be accounted for direct materials costs conversion costs completed and transferred out ​40,000 ​40,000 ​40,000 ending​ work-in-process* ​8,000 ​8,000 ​3,520 ​48,000 ​48,000 ​43,520 ​* percent complete for conversion​ costs: 44% in addition to the​ above, the cost per equivalent unit were​ $1.35 for direct materials and​ $5.30 for conversion costs. using this​ data, calculate the full cost of the ending wip balance in the mixing department. the​ weighted-average method is used.

Andy's candy purchased equipment for $35,000. sales tax on the purchase was $3,500. other costs incurred were freight charges of $940, and installation costs of $1,120. what is the cost of the equipment?