Last year builtrite had retained earnings of $140,000. this year, builtrite had true net profits after taxes of $65,000 which includes common stock dividends received of $10,000, and also paid a preferred dividend of $35,000. what is builtrite’s new level of retained earnings? a) $180,000 b) $190,000 c) $200,000 d) $170,000

At a student café, there are equal numbers of two types of customers with the following values. the café owner cannot distinguish between the two types of students because many students without early classes arrive early anyway (i.e., she cannot price-discriminate). students with early classes students without early classes coffee 70 60 banana 51 101 the marginal cost of coffee is 10 and the marginal cost of a banana is 40. the café owner is considering three pricing strategies: 1. mixed bundling: price bundle of coffee and a banana for 161, or just a coffee for 70. 2. price separately: offer coffee at 60, price a banana at 101. 3. bundle only: coffee and a banana for 121. do not offer goods separately. assume that if the price of an item or bundle is no more than exactly equal to a student's willingness to pay, then the student will purchase the item or bundle. for simplicity, assume there is just one student with an early class, and one student without an early class. price strategy revenue from pricing strategy cost from pricing strategy profit from pricing strategy 1. mixed bundling $ $ $ 2. price separately $ $ $ 3. bundle only $ $ $ pricing strategy yields the highest profit for the café owner.

Barbara flynn is in charge of maintaining hospital supplies at general hospital. during the past year, the mean lead time demand for bandage bx-5 was 65 (and was normally distributed). furthermore, the standard deviation for bx-5 was 6. ms. flynn would like to maintain a 90% service level.refer to the standard normal table for z-values.a) what safety stock level do you recommend for bx-5? safety stock=)what is the appropriate reorder point? reorder point=

Customers arrive at rich dunn's styling shop at a rate of 3 per hour, distributed in a poisson fashion. rich can perform an average of 5 haircuts per hour, according to a negative exponential distribution.a) the average number of customers waiting for haircuts= customersb) the average number of customers in the shop= customersc) the average time a customer waits until it is his or her turn= minutesd) the average time a customer spends in the shop= minutese) the percentage of time that rich is busy= percent