Water City is considering purchasing a water park in​ Atlanta, Georgia, for $ 1 comma 820 comma 000. The new facility will generate annual net cash inflows of $ 472 comma 000 for eight years. Engineers estimate that the facility will remain useful for eight years and have no residual value. The company uses​ straight-line depreciation, and its stockholders demand an annual return of 12​% on investments of this nature. Requirements
a. Compute the payback, the ARR, the NPV, the IRR, and the profitability index of this investment.
b. Recommend whether the company should invest in this project.

Alarge university wanted to study the relationship between completing an internship during college and students' future earning potential. prom the same graduating class, they selected a random sample of 80 students who completed an internship and 100 students who did not complete an internship and examined their salaries five years after graduation. they found that there was a statistically higher mean salary for the internship group than for the noninternship group. which of the following interpretations is the most appropriate? a. there could be a confounding variable, such as student major, that explains the difference in mean salary between the internship and no internship groups.b. we cannot infer anything from these data since the distribution of salaries is likely right skewed.c. you cannot draw any valid conclusions because the sample sizes are different.d. more students should complete internships because having an internship produces a higher salary.

Acompany manufactures x units of product a and y units of product b, on two machines, i and ii. it has been determined that the company will realize a profit of $3 on each unit of product a and $4 on each unit of product b. to manufacture a unit of product a requires 7 min on machine i and 5 min on machine ii. to manufacture a unit of product b requires 8 min on mchine i and 5 min on machine ii. there are 175 min available on machine i and 125 min available on machine ii in each work shift. how many units of a product should be produced in each shift to maximize the company's profit p?

Governments sometimes erect barriers to trade other than tariffs and quotas. which of the following is not an example of this type of trade barrier? a. a requirement that the employees of domestic firms that engage in foreign trade pay income taxes b. restrictions on imports for national security reasons c. a requirement that imports meet health and safety requirements d. a requirement that the u.s. government buy military uniforms only from u.s. manufacturers