P6.4 (lo 4) (evaluating payment alternatives) howie long has just learned he has won a $500,000 prize in the lottery. the lottery has given him two options for receiving the payments. (1) if howie takes all the money today, the state and federal governments will deduct taxes at a rate of 46% immediately. (2) alternatively, the lottery offers howie a payout of 20 equal payments of $36,000 with the first payment occurring when howie turns in the winning ticket. howie will be taxed on each of these payments at a rate of 25%. assuming howie can earn an 8% rate of return (compounded annually) on any money invested during this period, which payout option should he choose?

Jansen company borrowed $12,000 on a 1-year, 5 percent note payable from the local bank on april 1. interest was paid quarterly, and the note was repaid one year from the time the money was borrowed. calculate the amount of cash payments jansen was required to make in each of the two calendar years that were affected by the note payable.

If temper company, a manufacturer of mattresses, was considering moving its production facilities to china but decided against it because the additional costs of shipping the mattresses back to the u.s. would offset the cost savings associated with moving the production facilities, the increased costs associated with shipping would be an example ofanswers: learning-curve economies.diseconomies of scale.economies of scale.competitive advantages.

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?