Mike and tom debone chicken breasts for ted's chicken co. mike is new and can only debone 30 chicken breasts per hour by hand, while tom's experience allows him to debone 60 chicken breasts per hour by hand. ted buys one new machine that can debone 100 chicken breasts per hour. both mike and tom work the same 40 hours per week, but one of them is assigned to operate the machine instead of deboning the chicken breasts by hand. to obtain maximum average hourly productivity, is assigned to use the machine and their combined average hourly productivity as a team is chicken breasts

In its 2016 annual report, caterpillar inc. reported the following (in millions): 2016 2015 sales $38,537 $47,011 cost of goods sold 28,309 33,546 as a percentage of sales, did caterpillar's gross profit increase or decrease during 2016? select one: a. gross profit increased from 26.8% to 28.6% b. gross profit decreased from 28.6% to 26.5% c. gross profit increased from 71.4% to 73.2% d. gross profit decreased from 73.2% to 71.4% e. there is not enough information to answer the question.

Xinhong company is considering replacing one of its manufacturing machines. the machine has a book value of $39,000 and a remaining useful life of 5 years, at which time its salvage value will be zero. it has a current market value of $49,000. variable manufacturing costs are $33,300 per year for this machine. information on two alternative replacement machines follows. alternative a alternative b cost $ 115,000 $ 117,000 variable manufacturing costs per year 22,900 10,100 1. calculate the total change in net income if alternative a and b is adopted. 2. should xinhong keep or replace its manufacturing machine

What happens when the government finances a job creation project through taxes and borrowing?