In a finance firm, there are 7 back-end financial analysts serving requests of traders to perform detailed financial analysis. On average, the traders send a request to the analysts in every 5 minutes. It takes one analyst half an hour to finish the analysis for a request. Every minute the trader waits for the analysis results costs the company $10,000 because of delay in trading.

a. On average, how many requests are there waiting to be served by the analysts?

b. How long does it take, on average, for a trader to receive detailed analysis for his/her request?

c. On average, what is the hourly cost to the company because of traders awaiting analysis results?

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Which of the following is a disadvantage to choosing a sole proprietorship business structure? question 9 options: the owner has personal responsibility for the company's liabilities. the owner has to share the profits with partners. the owner is still liable for personal debts. the owner has to report to shareholders.

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