A local bakery shop bakes fresh muffins every morning to be sold throughout the day. The average daily demand for muffins is estimated as 50 with standard deviation of 5, and the demand is assumed to be normally distributed. Producing each muffin costs bakery shop 1 dollar, and the shop sells each muffin at 5 dollars. Any unsold muffin by the end of a day are given away for free. The average daily demand for muffins is estimated as [d] with standard deviation of [s]. Using the newsvendor model, how much muffin needs to produced every morning to maximize the expected profit

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.

David consumes two things: gasoline (g) and bread (b). david's utility function is u(g, b) = 10g^0.25 b^0.75. use the lagrange technique to solve for david's optimal choices of gasoline and bread as a function of the price of gasoline, p_g, the price of bread, p_b, and his income m. with recent decrease in the price of gasoline (maybe due to external shock such as shale gas production) does david increase his consumption of gasoline? for david, how does partial differential g/partial differential p_g depend on his income m? that is, how does david's change in gasoline consumption due to an increase in the price of gasoline depend on his income level? to answer these questions, find the cross-partial derivative, |partial differential^2 g/partial differential m partial differential p_g.

Wendy made her career planning timeline in 2010. in what year should wendy's timeline start? a. 2013 o b. 2012 oc. 2010 o d. 2011