You are shopping for a new printer to take back to college with you. you decide on the pixma ip100 due to its superior photo print quality and are now looking for the best price. different stores have different deals, plus the manufacturer was offering a $30 mail-in post-purchase rebate. you determined from the canon website that the msrp for the printer was $299 but one online store had it listed for $279. that price included free shipping, which you figured was at least a $20 savings. in addition, the seller included a usb cord necessary to connect the printer to your laptop, which was priced at $25 on canon's website. while the online store paid for shipping, there was a $5 fee to insure the printer during shipping. the online store did take trade-ins of old printers, but you didn't have any used printers to trade anyway. finally, the online store offered a special holiday coupon on this printer that was good for an additional $10 off the price of the printer. what was your final price for the printer? a) $219b) $209c) $244c

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.