You are promised that when you retire from your current job, in 40 years' time, you will receive a gold watch valued at $1 000. If you can invest money at 5% annual interest, what is the present worth of this promise?

Select one:

a. $142

b. $167

c. $211

d. $156

e. $231

1. what are the unique operational challenges to delivering fresh meals? 2. why is speed of delivery so important for delivered meals? what variety of options contribute to this performance metric? 3. how could operations management concepts be utilized to improve the performance of freshly? 4. what are your typical product delivery times? what would be required to speed these up? 5. what are your delivery batch quantities? how could you reduce batch size and reduce delivery cost simultaneously using operations management concepts?