The sweet candy company includes in its product line a number of different mixed nut products. the chalet nut mix is required to have no more than 25 percent peanuts and no less than 40 percent almonds. the nuts available, their prices and their availabilities this month are as follows: price availability peanuts 20 cents/lb. 400 lbs. walnuts 35 cents/lb. no limit almonds 50 cents/lb. 200 lbs. the chalet mix sells for 90 cents per lb. at most 700 lbs. can be mixed per moth in questions (a), (b) below. a. formulate and solve the appropriate model for this problem. b. the company would like to incorporate into the analysis its second major mixed nut line, the hovel line. the hovel mix can contain no more than 60 percent peanuts and no less than 20 percent almonds. hovel sells for 50 cents per lb. modify your model appropriately and solve. what is the most scarce resource? by how much the profit contribution will increase if one more pound of (i) peanuts was available. similarly find if one more pound of (ii) almonds or (iii) walnuts was available. c. note in (b) that hovel did not come into the optimal solution. what increase in the price of hovel will it make it profitable? (hint: use sensitivity analysis-objective row ranges)

The hawthorne works was a large western electric factory with 45,000 employees. during the 1920s and 1930s, hawthorne works was the site of some well-known industrial studies. in one of the studies, researchers investigated the impact of different working conditions on worker productivity. prior to the start of the study, researchers secretly measured workers' productivity for several weeks. then researchers chose two workers, who then chose their own teams. the teams were separated from the general workforce and completed their work in different experiment rooms where the researchers could observe them more easily. over a 5-year period researchers manipulated the structure of the workday for each team (number and duration of breaks and number of hours per shift). for each of these changes in working conditions, the researchers measured the effect on productivity. for some conditions, such as frequent short breaks, workers rebelled by intentionally decreasing productivity.why did the researchers secretly measure the workers' productivity before creating the two treatment groups? a, to create similar treatment groups so that a cause-and-effect relationship could be establishedb, to draw conclusions about the productivity of all workers in the plant based on the test groupsc, to directly control for confounding variablesd, to provide a baseline for measuring worker productivity

Xie company identified the following activities, costs, and activity drivers for 2017. the company manufactures two types of go-karts: deluxe and basic. activity expected costs expected activity handling materials $ 625,000 100,000 parts inspecting product 900,000 1,500 batches processing purchase orders 105,000 700 orders paying suppliers 175,000 500 invoices insuring the factory 300,000 40,000 square feet designing packaging 75,000 2 models required: 1. compute a single plantwide overhead rate, assuming that the company assigns overhead based on 125,000 budgeted direct labor hours. 2. in january 2017, the deluxe model required 2,500 direct labor hours and the basic model required 6,000 direct labor hours. assign overhead costs to each model using the single plantwide overhead rate.

Suppose that real interest rates increase across europe. this development will u.s. net capital outflow at all u.s. real interest rates. this causes the loanable funds to because net capital outflow is a component of that curve.