An electronics firm is currently manufacturing an item that has a variable cost of $ 0.45 per unit and a selling price of $ 0.95 per unit. Fixed costs are $16,000. Current volume is 35,000 units. The firm can substantially improve the product quality by adding a new piece of equipment at an additional fixed cost of $6,400. Variable cost would increase to $ 0.60 and the selling price would be revised to $ 1.15 with the expectation that the volume would be 45,000 units as a result of a​ higher-quality product. Requried:Should the company buy the new equipment?

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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?

Mai and chuck have been divorced since 2012. they have three boys, ages 6, 8, and 10. all of the boys live with mai and she receives child support from chuck. mai and chuck both work and the boys need child care before and after school. te boys attend the fun house day care center and mai paid them $2,000 and chuck paid them $3,000. mai's agi is $18,000 and chuck's is $29,000. mai will claim two of the boys as dependents. she signed form 8332 which allows chuck to claim one of the boys. who can take the child and dependent care credit?