Two farmers, a and b, each apply 100 tons of manure on their fields. to reduce manure runoff, the government has decided to require a permit for each ton of manure applied. the government gives each farmer 50 tradeable permits. farmer a incurs losses of $25 for each ton of manure he does not apply, and farmer b incurs losses of $50 for each ton of manure he does not apply. after permit trading, we would expect that

Roi analysis using dupont model. charlie? s furniture store has been in business for several years. the firm? s owners have described the store as a ? high-price, highservice? operation that provides lots of assistance to its customers. margin has averaged a relatively high 32% per year for several years, but turnover has been a relatively low 0.4 based on average total assets of $800,000. a discount furniture store is about to open in the area served by charlie? s, and management is considering lowering prices in order to compete effectively. required: a. calculate current sales and roi for charlie? s furniture store. b. assuming that the new strategy would reduce margin to 20%, and assuming that average total assets would stay the same, calculate the sales that would be required to have the same roi as they currently earned. c. suppose that you presented the results of your analysis in parts a and b of this problem to charlie, and he replied, ? what

3. describe the purpose of the sec. (1-4 sentences. 2.0 points)

The purpose of the transportation approach for location analysis is to minimize which of the following? a. total costsb. total fixed costsc. the number of shipmentsd. total shipping costse. total variable costs