Quick Corp. has $270,000 of outstanding accounts receivable. On March 10, Quick assigned to Taft for value (consideration) a $30,000 account receivable due from Pine, one of Quick Corp.'s customers. On March 30, Pine paid Quick Corp. the $30,000. On April 5, Taft notified Pine of the March 10 assignment from Quick to Taft. Taft is entitled to collect $30,000 from Select one: a. Neither Quick nor Pine. b. Quick only. c. Pine only. d. Either Quick or Pine

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1