AVI supplies vended food to a large university. Because students kick the machines at every opportunity, management has a constant repair problem. The machines break down on an average of three per hour, and the breakdowns are distributed in a Poisson manner. Downtime costs the company $25/hour per machine, and each maintenance worker gets $4/hour. One worker can service machines at an average rate of five per hour, distributed exponentially; two workers working together (as one team) can service seven per hour, distributed exponentially; and, a team of three workers can do eight per hour, distributed exponentially. What is the optimum maintenance crew size?

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Costco wholesale corporation operates membership warehouses selling food, appliances, consumer electronics, apparel and other household goods at 471 locations across the u.s. as well as in canada, mexico and puerto rico. as of its fiscal year-end 2005, costco had approximately 21.2 million members. selected fiscal-year information from the company's balance sheets follows. ($ millions). selected balance sheet data 2005 2004 merchandise inventories $4,015 $3,644 deferred membership income (liability) 501 454 (a) during fiscal 2005, costco collected $1,120 cash for membership fees. use the financial statement effectstemplate to record the cash collected for membership fees. (b) in 2005, costco recorded $46,347 million in merchandise costs (that is, cost of goods sold). record thistransaction in the financial statement effects template. (c) determine the value of merchandise that costco purchased during fiscal-year 2005. use the financial statementeffects template to record these merchandise purchases. assume all of costco's purchases are on credit.

Dominic is the founder of an innovative "impromptu catering" business that provides elegant, healthy party food and decorations on less than 24 hours' notice. the company has grown by over 150 percent in the past year. dominic credits some of the company's success to studying the strategies of prominent social entrepreneurs, such as wikipedia's jimmy wales. what can dominic do to exemplify the social entrepreneurship model?