Portsmouth company makes upholstered furniture. its only variable cost is direct materials. the demand for the company's products far exceeds its manufacturing capacity. the bottleneck (or constriant) in the production process is upholstery labor-hours. information concerning three of portsmouth's upholstered chairs appears below: recliner sofa love seat selling price per unit $ 1,430 $ 1,800 $ 1,250 variable cost per unit $ 750 $ 1,400 $ 850 upholstery labor-hours per unit 10 hours 10 hours 5 hours required: 1. portsmouth is considering paying its upholstery laborers additional compensation to work overtime. assuming that this extra time would be used to produce sofas, up to how much of an overtime premium per hour should the company be willing to pay to keep the upholstery shop open after normal working hours? 2. a small nearby upholstering company has offered to upholster furniture for portsmouth at a price of $38 per hour. the management of portsmouth is confident that this upholstering company’s work is high quality and their craftsmen can work as quickly as portsmouth’s own craftsmen on the simpler upholstering jobs such as the love seat. how much additional contribution margin per hour can portsmouth earn if if it hires the nearby upholstering company to make love seats? 3. should portsmouth hire the nearby upholstering company?

Which website did you use to find the image you used in your career presentation? complete sentences are not necessary.

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

Imagine us is a startup that offers high definition 3d prenatal ultrasounds for high-end customers. the service process includes four activities that are conducted in the sequence described below. (the time required for each activity is shown in parentheses): activity 1: welcome a patient and explain the procedure. (20 minutes)activity 2: prep the patient (e.g., show them to the room, apply ultrasound gel). (17 minutes) (*your id number represents the amount of time needed to complete this task)activity 3: take images. (5 minutes)activity 4: discuss diagnostic with patient. (20 minutes)at each location there are employees (servers) s1, s2, and s3. the assignment of tasks to servers is the following: s1 does activities 1 and 2.s2 does activity 3.s3 does activity 4.a. what is the capacity of this process (in customers per hour)? b. suppose 3 patients arrive every hour on average. ignoring any “start of day” or “end of day” effects, what are the utilizations of all three servers (%)? c. suppose each activity can be done by any server and any server can do any set of activities. however, each activity is done by only one server. for example, a possible assignment includes: s1 does activity 1, s2 does activity 2, and s3 does activities 3 and 4. of course, the original assignment of servers to activities is also feasible. what is the maximum capacity of the process (in customers per hour)? d. now consider the capacity measures in (c) and (a), what is the percentage change? why can you improve capacity without using additional resources? (there is no free lunch, right? )note: for all hw assignments, show your process of getting the results. only providing the final answers is not acceptable and will get 0%. if necessary, use a separate sheet of paper to show your work.