An oil refinery is located 1 km north of the north bank of a straight river that is 2 km wide. a pipeline is to be constructed from the refinery to storage tanks located on the south bank of the river 5 km east of the refinery. the cost of laying pipe is $300,000/km over land to a point p on the north bank and $600,000/km under the river to the tanks. to minimize the cost of the pipeline, how far downriver from the refinery should the point p be located? (round your answer to two decimal places.)

Cool beans is a locally owned coffee shop that competes with two large coffee chains, planeteuro and frothies. alicia, the owner, hired two students to count the number of customers that entered each of the coffee shops to estimate what percent of people who are interested in coffee are visiting each shop. after a week, the students found the following results: 589 visited cool beans, 839 visited planeteuro, and 1,290 visited frothies. the students were surprised that cool beans had 139 visits on monday which represented 59% of all people who visited one of the three coffee shops on mondays. how many people visited one of the three coffee shops during the week?

Why should managers invest any excess cash

Advanced enterprises reports year-end information from 2018 as follows: sales (160,250 units) $968,000 cost of goods sold 641,000 gross margin 327,000 operating expenses 263,000 operating income $64,000 advanced is developing the 2019 budget. in 2019 the company would like to increase selling prices by 14.5%, and as a result expects a decrease in sales volume of 9%. all other operating expenses are expected to remain constant. assume that cost of goods sold is a variable cost and that operating expenses are a fixed cost. should advanced increase the selling price in 2019?