Manning Company uses the percentage of receivables method for recording bad debts expense. At the end of the year (before adjustment), the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts has a credit balance of $2,000 and accounts receivables has a balance of $1,000,000. Management estimates that 2% of credit sales will be uncollectible. What is the balance in the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts after adjustment? Select one: a. $24,000 b. $20,000 c. $22,000 d. $23,000 e. None of the above

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1