16.8 a work sampling study is to be performed on an office pool consisting of 10 persons to see how much time they spend on the telephone. the duration of the study is to be 22 days, seven hours per day. all calls are local. using the phone is only one of the activities that members of the pool accomplish. the supervisor estimates that 25% of the time of the workers is spent on the phone.(a) at the 95% confidence level, how many observations are required if the lower and upper limits on the confidence interval are 0.20 and 0.30.(b) regardless of your answer to (a), suppose that 200 observations were taken on each of the

If the economy were in the contracting phase of the business cycle, how might that affect your ability to find work?

The east asiatic company (eac), a danish company with subsidiaries throughout asia, has been funding its bangkok subsidiary primarily with u.s. dollar debt because of the cost and availability of dollar capital as opposed to thai baht-denominated (b) debt. the treasurer of eac-thailand is considering a 1-year bank loan for $247,000.the current spot rate is b32.03 /$, and the dollar-based interest is 6.78% for the 1-year period. 1-year loans are 12.04% in baht.a. assuming expected inflation rates of 4.3 % and 1.24% in thailand and the united states, respectively, for the coming year, according to purchase power parity, what would the effective cost of funds be in thai baht terms? b. if eac's foreign exchange advisers believe strongly that the thai government wants to push the value of the baht down against the dollar by5% over the coming year (to promote its export competitiveness in dollar markets), what might the effective cost of funds end up being in baht terms? c. if eac could borrow thai baht at 13% per annum, would this be cheaper than either part (a) or part (b) above?

Managers in a firm hired to improve the firm's profitability and ultimately the shareholders' value will add to the overall costs if they pursue their own self-interests. what does this best illustrate? a. diseconomies of scale b. principal-agent problem c. experience-curveeffects d. information asymmetries