You are the manager of blackspot computers, which competes directly with condensed computers to sell high-powered computers to businesses. from the two businesses’ perspectives, the two products are indistinguishable. the large investment required to build production facilities prohibits other firms from entering this market, and existing output firms operate under the assumption that the rival will hold constant. the inverse market demand for computes is p=5,900 – q, and both firms produce at a marginal cost of $800 per computer. currently, blackspot earns revenues of $4.25 million and profits (net of investment, r& d, and other fixed costs) of $890,000. the engineering department at blackspot has been steadily working on developing an assembly method that would dramatically reduce the marginal cost of producing these high powered computers and has fond a process that allows it to manufacture each computer at a marginal cost of $500. how will this technological advance impact your production and pricing plans? how will it impact blackspot’s bottom line?

Bear, inc. estimates its sales at 200,000 units in the first quarter and that sales will increase by 20,000 units each quarter over the year. they have, and desire, a 25% ending inventory of finished goods. each unit sells for $35. 40% of the sales are for cash. 70% of the credit customers pay within the quarter. the remainder is received in the quarter following sale. cash collections for the third quarter are budgeted at

Companies in the u.s. car rental market vary greatly in terms of the size of the fleet, the number of locations, and annual revenue. in 2011 hertz had 320,000 cars in service and annual revenue of approximately $4.2 billion. the following data show the number of cars in service (1000s) and the annual revenue ($ millions) for six smaller car rental companies (auto rental news website, august 7, 2012). excel file: data14-09.xls if required, enter negative values as negative numbers. a. select a scatter diagram with the number of cars in service as the independent variable. b. what does the scatter diagram developed in part (a) indicate about the relationship between the two variables? c. use the least squares method to develop the estimated regression equation (to 3 decimals). ŷ = + x d. for every additional car placed in service, estimate how much annual revenue will change. by $ e. fox rent a car has 11,000 cars in service. use the estimated regression equation developed in part (c) to predict annual revenue for fox rent a car. round your answer to nearest whole value. $ million hide feedback partially correct

River corp's total assets at the end of last year were $415,000 and its net income was $32,750. what was its return on total assets? a. 7.89%b. 8.29%c. 8.70%d. 9.14%e. 9.59%