5. Unemployment Suppose in the town of Oxnard there are 132,000 individuals in the labor force and 124,872 of them are currently employed in February 2018. Assume that the current rate of job separation is 3.5 percent, while the rate of job finding is 20 percent. Assume that the total number of individuals in the labor force in Oxnard remain unchanged over time. a. What is the unemployment rate in Oxnard in February 2018? b. How many employed workers are expected to lose their jobs in February 2018? Round your answer to the nearest whole number. c. How many unemployed workers are expected to find jobs in February 2018? Round your answer to the nearest whole number. (d) Based on your answers in (b) and (c), what will the unemployment rate be at the beginning of March 2018?

Your aunt is thinking about opening a hardware store. she estimates that it would cost $300,000 per year to rent the location and buy the stock. in addition, she would have to quit her $45,000 per year job as an accountant. a. define opportunity cost. b. what is your aunt's opportunity cost of running a hardware store for a year? if your aunt thought she could sell $350,000 worth of merchandise in a year, should she open the store? explain.

Starting at age 30, you deposit $2000 a year into an ira account for retirement. treat the yearly deposits into the account as a continuous income stream. if money in the account earns 7%, compounded continuously, how much will be in the account 35 years later, when you retire at age 65? how much of the final amount is interest?

Electronics assembly inc. is a contract manufacturer that assembles consumer electronics for a number of companies. currently, the operations manager is assessing the capacity requirements as input into a bid for a job to assemble cell phones for a major global company. the company would assemble three models of cell phones in the same assembly cell. setup time between the phones is negligible. electronics assembly inc. operates two 8-hour shifts for 275 days per year. cell phone demand forecast (phones/year) processing time (minutes/phone) mars 47,000 19.8 saturn 35,000 20.7 neptune 7,500 16.2 a. calculate total capacity required by line. b. determine the total operating time available. c. calculate the total number of assembly cells. (round up your answer to the next whole number.)