Knowledge check 01 chao, inc., a service provider, has two divisions. the firm’s most recent annual contribution format segmented income statement appears below. total company eastern division western division sales $ 450,000 $ 90,000 $ 360,000 variable expenses 243,000 27,000 216,000 contribution margin 207,000 63,000 144,000 traceable fixed expenses 100,800 46,800 54,000 division segment margin 106,200 $ 16,200 $ 90,000 common fixed expenses 72,000 net operating income $ 34,200 if the company eliminates the western division and the eastern division sales increase by 10% as a result, how much will the company’s net operating income decrease? $83,700 $88,380 $90,000 $137,700 $144,000

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

Southeastern oklahoma state university's business program has the facilities and faculty to handle an enrollment of 2,000 new students per semester. however, in an effort to limit class sizes to a "reasonable" level (under 200 generally), southeastern's dean, holly lutze, placed a ceiling on enrollment of 1,600 new students. although there was ample demand for business courses last semester, conflicting schedules allowed only 1,440 new students to take business courses.the utilization rate for southeastern=%the efficiency rate for southeastern=%

Juniper company, inc. uses a perpetual inventory system. the company purchased $9,750 of merchandise on august 7 with terms 1/10, n/30. on august 11, it returned $1,500 worth of merchandise. on august 16, it paid the full amount due. the correct journal entry to record the payment on august 16 is: