Toselli Animation plans to offer its employees a salary enhancement package that has revenue sharing as its main component. Specifically, the company will set aside 3% of total sales revenue for year-end bonuses. The sales are expected to be $5 million the first year, $5.5 million the second year, and amounts increasing by 10% each year for the next 5 years. At an interest rate of 11% per year, what is the equivalent annual worth in years 1 through 5 of the bonus package

At a student café, there are equal numbers of two types of customers with the following values. the café owner cannot distinguish between the two types of students because many students without early classes arrive early anyway (i.e., she cannot price-discriminate). students with early classes students without early classes coffee 70 60 banana 51 101 the marginal cost of coffee is 10 and the marginal cost of a banana is 40. the café owner is considering three pricing strategies: 1. mixed bundling: price bundle of coffee and a banana for 161, or just a coffee for 70. 2. price separately: offer coffee at 60, price a banana at 101. 3. bundle only: coffee and a banana for 121. do not offer goods separately. assume that if the price of an item or bundle is no more than exactly equal to a student's willingness to pay, then the student will purchase the item or bundle. for simplicity, assume there is just one student with an early class, and one student without an early class. price strategy revenue from pricing strategy cost from pricing strategy profit from pricing strategy 1. mixed bundling $ $ $ 2. price separately $ $ $ 3. bundle only $ $ $ pricing strategy yields the highest profit for the café owner.

Suppose a holiday inn hotel has annual fixed costs applicable to its rooms of $1.2 million for its 300-room hotel, average daily room rents of $50, and average variable costs of $10 for each room rented. it operates 365 days per year. the amount of operating income on rooms, assuming an occupancy* rate of 80% for the year, that will be generated for the entire year is *occupancy = % of rooms rented

You are considering the purchase of one of two machines used in your manufacturing plant. machine 1 has a life of two years, costs $20,000 initially, and then $4,000 per year in maintenance costs. machine 2 costs $25,000 initially, has a life of three years, and requires $3,500 in annual maintenance costs. either machine must be replaced at the end of its life with an equivalent machine. using eac which is the better machine for the firm