The harriet hotel in downtown boston has 100 rooms that rent for $150 per night. it costs the hotel $30 per room in variable costs (cleaning, bathroom items, etc.) each night a room is occupied. for each reservation accepted, there is a 5% chance that the guest will not arrive. if the hotel overbooks, it costs $200 to compensate guests whose reservations cannot be honored. how many reservations should the hotel accept if it wants to maximize the average daily profit? you may use microsoft excel with aspe or r statistical programming to solve.

use ms excel aspe to solve and provide appropriate steps to complete. i have read the textbook solution, but it appears to have a circular reference in the model and provides very little detail to me understand the solution.

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

Factors like the unemployment rate,the stock market,global trade,economic policy,and the economic situation of other countries have no influence on the financial status of individuals. true or false

Creation landscaping has 1,000 bonds outstanding that are selling for $1,280 each. the company also has 2,000 shares of preferred stock outstanding, currently priced at $27.20 a share. the common stock is priced at $37.00 a share and there are 28,000 shares outstanding. what is the weight of the debt as it relates to the firm's weighted average cost of capital?