After deciding to buy a new car, you can either lease the car or purchase it on a two-year loan. the car you wish to buy costs $38,500. the dealer has a special leasing arrangement where you pay $106 today and $506 per month for the next two years. if you purchase the car, you will pay it off in monthly payments over the next two years at an apr of 7 percent. you believe you will be able to sell the car for $26,500 in two years. what break-even resale price in two years would make you indifferent between buying and leasing? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your final answer to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.)

Haley photocopying purchases a paper from an out-of-state vendor. average weekly demand for paper is 150 cartons per week for which haley pays $15 per carton. in bound shipments from the vendor average 1000 cartoons with an average lead time of 3 weeks. haley operates 52 weeks per year; it carries a 4-week supply of inventory as safety stock and no anticipation inventory. the vendor has recently announced that they will be building a faculty near haley photocopying that will reduce lead time to one week. further, they will be able to reduce shipments to 200 cartons. haley believes that they will be able to reduce safety stock to a 1-week supply. what impact will these changes make to haley’s average inventory level and its average aggregated inventory value?