You have just deposited $5,500 into an account that promises to pay you an annual interest rate of 5.4 percent each year for the next 5 years. You will leave the money invested in the account and 15 years from today, you need to have $10,600 in the account. What annual interest rate must you earn over the last 10 years to accomplish this goal?

Pressure systems, inc., manufactures high-accuracy liquid-level transducers. it is investigating whether it should update certain equipment now or wait to do it later. if the cost now is $200,000, what will the equivalent amount be 3 years from now at an interest rate of 10% per year?

Atoy manufacturer makes its own wind-up motors, which are then put into its toys. while the toy manufacturing process is continuous, the motors are intermittent flow. data on the manufacture of the motors appears below.annual demand (d) = 50,000 units daily subassembly production rate = 1,000setup cost (s) = $85 per batch daily subassembly usage rate = 200carrying cost = $.20 per unit per year(a) to minimize cost, how large should each batch of subassemblies be? (b) approximately how many days are required to produce a batch? (c) how long is a complete cycle? (d) what is the average inventory for this problem? (e) what is the total annual inventory cost (holding plus setup) of the optimal behavior in this problem?

What do you recommend adam do to increase production in a business setting that does not seem to value high productivity?