A hurricane evacuation shelter, operating the local municipality, wants to be sure (99.9%) they will have power for up to a 3 week period where the power is provided using generators. After a search of the market no single generator was found that could provide the required 1 reliability, so instead multiple generators will be purchased and operated in an active parallel arrangement. An analyst for the municipality identified a generator from one supplier that has a reliability of 0.7 over a 3-week period. How many generators of this type are required to meet the design requirement

In june 2009, at the trough of the great recession, the bureau of labor statistics announced that of all adult americans, 140,196,000 were employed, 14,729,000 were unemployed and 80,729,000 were not in the labor force. use this information to calculate: a. the adult population b. the labor force c. the labor-force participation rate d. the unemployment rate

On february 10, 2014, after issuance of its financial statements for 2013, higgins company entered into a financing agreement with cleveland bank, allowing higgins company to borrow up to $6,000,000 at any time through 2016. amounts borrowed under the agreement bear interest at 2% above the bank's prime interest rate and mature two years from the date of loan. higgins company presently has $2,250,000 of notes payable with star national bank maturing march 15, 2014. the company intends to borrow $3,750,000 under the agreement with cleveland and liquidate the notes payable to star national bank. the agreement with cleveland also requires higgins to maintain a working capital level of $9,000,000 and prohibits the payment of dividends on common stock without prior approval by cleveland bank. from the above information only, the total short-term debt of higgins company as of the december 31, 2013 balance sheet date is

Susie buys two goods - rounds of golf and massages. suppose that the price of a round of golf is $20, and the price of a massage is $30. in a typical week susie will play two rounds of golf, getting 20 units of satisfaction from the second round. she normally buys three massages each week, with the third giving her 30 units of satisfaction. if she were to buy a fourth massage in a week, it would give her 20 units of satisfaction. if the price of massages is reduced to $15, which of the following outcomes might we expect to occur? a) susie would leave her consumption choices unchanged because of diminishing marginal utility in the consumption of massages. b) susie would buy more massages and more rounds of golf, as predicted by the substituion effect. c) susie would buy more massages and fewer rounds of golf, as predicted by the substitution effect. d) susie would buy more massage and fewer rounds of golf, as predicted by income effect.