PROJECT: HARDWARE AWARENESS • To build an ethernet, you need cables and the money to pay for them. A particularly popular type of ethernet
cable is called Cat5. Search the Internet for the best prices for an ethernet Cat5 cable. Study the results, and
select five that might be useful. Create a table with headers for columns containing the online page address,
product name, cable length, price, and a reason for including each one in the table.
• Select cables that could be used in a network, not just around the home. Organize the table with your first choice
at the top.
• Give the table to your teacher.

In the fall, jay thompson decided to live in a university dormitory. he signed a dorm contract under which he was obligated to pay the room rent for the full college year. one clause stated that if he moved out during the year, he could sell his dorm contract to another student who would move into the dormitory as his replacement. the dorm cost was $5000 for the two semesters, which jay had already paid a month after he moved into the dorm, he decided he would prefer to live in an apartment. that week, after some searching for a replacement to fulfill his dorm contract, jay had two offers. one student offered to move in immediately and to pay jay $300 per month for the eight remaining months of the school year. a second student offered to move in the second semester and pay $2500 to jay. jay estimates his food cost per month is $500 if he lives in the dorm and $450 if he lives in an apartment with three other students. his share of the apartment rent and utilities will be $404 per month. assume each semester is 4.5 months long. disregard the small differences in the timing of the disbursements or receipts. what is the cost of the cheapest alternative?

Asemiprofessional baseball team near your town plays two home games each month at the local baseball park. they split the concessions 50/50 with the city, but keep revenue from ticket sales for themselves. the city charges the team $100 each month for the three-month season. the team pays the players and manager a total of $1,000 a month. the team charges $10 for each ticket, and the average customer spends $7 at the concession stand. attendance averages 30 people at each home game.in order to break even, how many tickets does the team need to sell for each game? a. 33b. 37c. 41e. 49f. 244

For example, the upper right cell shows that if expresso advertises and beantown doesn't advertise, expresso will make a profit of $15 million, and beantown will make a profit of $2 million. assume this is a simultaneous game and that expresso and beantown are both profit-maximizing firms. if expresso decides to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if expresso decides not to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if beantown advertises, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . if beantown doesn't advertise, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . suppose that both firms start off not advertising. if the firms act independently, what strategies will they end up choosing? expresso will choose to advertise and beantown will choose not to advertise. expresso will choose not to advertise and beantown will choose to advertise. both firms will choose to advertise. both firms will choose not to advertise.