Over the past decade, cruise lines have dramatically increased their number of megaships (those that carry 3,000 passengers or more), increasing the supply of cruises. at the same time, the popularity of cruising has increased among consumers, increasing demand. what must happen for the average price to decrease?

increase supply greater than demand.

supply and demand should increase at the same rate.

nothing; average price will decrease with the implied changes in supply and demand.

increase demand greater than supply.

Case in point 2.4 attaway airlines, part two back at attaway airlines, the morning meeting ended with no agreement between dan esposito and molly kinnon. in fact, a new issue arose. molly now says that the new accounting system is entitled to the highest priority because the federal government soon will require the reporting of certain types of company-paid health insurance premiums. because the current system will not handle this report, she insists that the entire accounting system is a nondiscretionary project. as you might expect, dan is upset. can part of a project be nondiscretionary? what issues need to be discussed? the committee meets again tomorrow, and the members will look to you, as the it director, for guidance.

Needs to schedule the staffing of the center. it is open from 8am until midnight. larry has monitored the usage of the center at various times of the day and determined that the following number of computer consultants are required: time of dayminimum number of consultants required to be on duty8 am-noon4noon-4 pm84pm-8pm108pm-midnight6 two types of computer consultants can be hired: full-time and part-time. the full- time consultants work for eight consecutive hours in any of the shifts: morning (8am- 4pm), afternoon (noon-8pm) and evening (4pm-midnight). full-time consultants are paid $14 per hour. part-time consultants can be hired to work any of the four shifts listed in the table. part-time consultants are paid $12 per hour. an additional requirement is that during every time period, there must be at least two full-time consultants on duty for every part-time consultant on duty. larry would like to determine how many full-time and part-time consultants should work each shift to meet the above requirements at the minimum possible cost. formulate this as an lp problem. you must define your variables clearly

Wang distributors has an annual demand for an airport metal detector of 1 comma 350 units. the cost of a typical detector to wang is $400. carrying cost is estimated to be 19% of the unit cost, and the ordering cost is $24 per order. if ping wang, the owner, orders in quantities of 300 or more, he can get a 10% discount on the cost of the detectors. should wang take the quantity discount? \