The beaver creek pottery company is a small crafts operation run by a native american tribal council. the company employs skilled artisans to produce clay mugs and bowls with authentic native american designs and colors. the two primary resources used by the company are special pottery clay and skilled labor. producing a mug requires 1 hour of labor and 4 pounds of clay and yields a profit of $40. bowls, on the other hand, each require 2 hours of labor and 3 pounds of clay but produce a profit of $50 per unit. there are 40 hours of labor and 120 pounds of clay available each day for production. given these limited resources, the company desires to know how many mugs and bowls to produce each day in order to maximize its profit.

Calculate the required rate of return for an asset that has a beta of 1.73, given a risk-free rate of 5.3% and a market return of 9.9%. b. if investors have become more risk-averse due to recent geopolitical events, and the market return rises to 12.7%, what is the required rate of return for the same asset?

Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

Based on what you learned about time management which of these statements are true