Furnco sells secretarial chairs. Annual demand is normally distributed, with mean of 1,040 chairs and standard deviation of 50.99 chairs. Furnco orders its chairs from its flagship store. It costs $100 to place an order, and the lead time is two weeks. Furnco estimates that each stock out causes a loss of $50 in future goodwill. Furnco pays $60 for each chair and sells it for $100. The annual cost of holding a chair in inventory is 30% of its purchase cost. a Assuming that all demand is backlogged, what are the reorder point and the safety stock level?
b Assuming that all stockouts result in lost sales, determine the optimal reorder point and the safety stock level.

Astock is selling today for $50 per share. at the end of the year, it pays a dividend of $3 per share and sells for $58. a. what is the total rate of return on the stock? (enter your answer as a whole percent.) b. what are the dividend yield and percentage capital gain? (enter your answers as a whole percent.) c. now suppose the year-end stock price after the dividend is paid is $42. what are the dividend yield and percentage capital gain in this case? (negative amounts should be indicated by a minus sign. enter your answers as a whole percent.)

1. descriptive statistics quickly describe large amounts of data can predict future stock returns with surprising accuracy statisticians understand non-numeric information, like colors refer mainly to patterns that can be found in data 2. a 15% return on a stock means that 15% of the original purchase price of the stock returns to the seller at the end of the year 15% of the people who purchased the stock will see a return the stock is worth 15% more at the end of the year than at the beginning the stock has lost 15% of its value since it was originally sold 3. a stock purchased on january 1 cost $4.35 per share. the same stock, sold on december 31 of the same year, brought in $4.75 per share. what was the approximate return on this stock? 0.09% 109% 1.09% 9% 4. a stock sells for $6.99 on december 31, providing the seller with a 6% annual return. what was the price of the stock at the beginning of the year? $6.59 $1.16 $7.42 $5.84

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