Manley Co. manufactures office furniture. During the most productive month of the year, 5,000 desks were manufactured at a total cost of $87,000. In its slowest month, the company made 2,000 desks at a cost of $49,500. Using the high-low method of cost estimation, total fixed costs are:

Parks corporation is considering an investment proposal in which a working capital investment of $10,000 would be required. the investment would provide cash inflows of $2,000 per year for six years. the working capital would be released for use elsewhere when the project is completed. if the company's discount rate is 10%, the investment's net present value is closest to (ignore income taxes) ?

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

Kcompany estimates that overhead costs for the next year will be $4,900,000 for indirect labor and $1,000,000 for factory utilities. the company uses direct labor hours as its overhead allocation base. if 100,000 direct labor hours are planned for this next year, what is the company's plantwide overhead rate?