During march 2017, toby tool & die company worked on four jobs. a review of direct labor costs reveals the following summary data. actual standard job number hours costs hours costs total variance a257 220 $4,840 228 $5,016 $176 f a258 460 11,040 443 9,746 1,294 u a259 305 7,107 306 6,732 375 u a260 100 2,000 93 2,046 46 f total variance $1,447 u analysis reveals that job a257 was a repeat job. job a258 was a rush order that required overtime work at premium rates of pay. job a259 required a more experienced replacement worker on one shift. work on job a260 was done for one day by a new trainee when a regular worker was absent. prepare a report for the plant supervisor on direct labor cost variances for march. (round quantity variance, actual rate, standard rate and price variance to 2 decimal places, e. g. 10.50.)

The monthly payment m of a loan of amount p for y years with an interest rate r can be calculated by the formula: m = p(r/12) 1 â’ (1 + r/12)â’12y calculate the monthly payment and the cummulative total payment for a $100,000 loan with an interest rate of 4.85% if taken out for 10 years, for 11 years, etc., up to a 30 year term. display the results in a three-column table where the first column is the number of years, the second is the monthly payment, and the third is the cummulative total payment. note: use format bank; for this problem. also, remember to represent the interest rate as a decimal (e.g. 0.0485) 2. a torus-shaped water tube is designed to have a volume of 8, 000in3 . the volume of the tube, v , and its surface area, s, are given by: v = 1 4 ď€ 2 (a + b)(b â’ a) 2 s = ď€ 2 (b 2 â’ a 2 ) if a = kb, determine s, a, and b for k = 0.2, 0.3, 0.7. display the results in a table

1) u.s. real gdp is substantially higher today than it was 60 years ago. what does this tell us, and what does it not tell us, about the well-being of u.s. residents? what are the limitations of the gdp as a measure of economic well-being? given the limitations, why is gdp usually regarded as the best single measure of a society’s economic well-being? 2) what is an intermediate good? how does an intermediate good differ from a final good? explain why it is the case that the value of intermediate goods produced and sold during the year is not included directly as part of gdp, but the value of intermediate goods produced and not sold is included directly as part of gdp.

Apopular low-cost airline, parson corp., has gone out of business. although the service and price provided by the airline was what customers wanted, the larger airlines were able to drive the low-cost airline out of business through an aggressive price war. which component of the competitive environment does this illustrate? a) threat of new entrants b)competitors c) economic factors d) customers d) regulators