Bay City Movers is a local company that specializes in intercity moves. In the business plan submitted to its investors, Bay City has committed itself to a total trucking capacity of at least 42 tons. The company is in the process of replacing its entire fleet of trucks with 1-ton pickup trucks and 2.5 ton moving van-type trucks. The 1-ton pickup trucks will be manned by one workers, whereas the large vans will utilize a total of four workers for larger moves. Bay City Movers currently employs 63 workers and has facilities for at most 50 trucks. Pickup trucks cost the company $24,000 each; the moving vans cost $60,000 each. The company wishes to make the minimum investment of capital that will priovide a trucking capacity of at least 42 tons while not requiring any additional workers or trucking facilities. a. construct, in equation form, the linear programming model that will determine the optimal number of pickup trucks and moving vans Bay City Movers should purchase. b. solve this problem using Solver SHOW ALL WORK

Costco wholesale corporation operates membership warehouses selling food, appliances, consumer electronics, apparel and other household goods at 471 locations across the u.s. as well as in canada, mexico and puerto rico. as of its fiscal year-end 2005, costco had approximately 21.2 million members. selected fiscal-year information from the company's balance sheets follows. ($ millions). selected balance sheet data 2005 2004 merchandise inventories $4,015 $3,644 deferred membership income (liability) 501 454 (a) during fiscal 2005, costco collected $1,120 cash for membership fees. use the financial statement effectstemplate to record the cash collected for membership fees. (b) in 2005, costco recorded $46,347 million in merchandise costs (that is, cost of goods sold). record thistransaction in the financial statement effects template. (c) determine the value of merchandise that costco purchased during fiscal-year 2005. use the financial statementeffects template to record these merchandise purchases. assume all of costco's purchases are on credit.

Carlton industries is considering a new project that they plan to price at $74.00 per unit. the variable costs are estimated at $39.22 per unit and total fixed costs are estimated at $12,085. the initial investment required is $8,000 and the project has an estimated life of 4 years. the firm requires a return of 8 percent. ignore the effect of taxes. what is the degree of operating leverage at the financial break-even level of output?

Joe pays ann to mow his lawn and ann mows vanna's lawn by mistake. vanna peers out her window and sees ann mowing, yet says nothing to ann about her mistake since vanna needs to have her lawn mowed. when ann approaches vanna for payment, vanna refuses, arguing that she never asked ann to mow her lawn. under these circumstances, ann can recover payment from vanna under: