If you were in the dry-cleaning business, whom would you benchmark for their technological innovations? list companies in related fields that would be inside and outside your industry.

Calvin works at a facility which processes apples. it costs the facility $0.68 to make either a jar of applesauce or a bottle of apple juice. due to the nature of the process and contractual agreements, calvin's facility must make and sell three jars of applesauce for every two bottles of apple juice. a jar of applesauce sells for $2.20, and a bottle of apple juice sells for $3.15. if the facility has annual overhead costs of $368,500, not including production costs, how many bottles of apple juice will the facility have sold when it breaks even every year? round to the nearest whole bottle, if necessary.

Lusk corporation produces and sells 14,300 units of product x each month. the selling price of product x is $25 per unit, and variable expenses are $19 per unit. a study has been made concerning whether product x should be discontinued. the study shows that $72,000 of the $102,000 in monthly fixed expenses charged to product x would not be avoidable even if the product was discontinued. if product x is discontinued, the annual financial advantage (disadvantage) for the company of eliminating this product should be:

Andrea cujoli is a currency speculator who enjoys "betting" on changes in the foreign currency exchange market. currently the spot price for the japanese yen is ¥129.87/$ and the 6-month forward rate is ¥128.53/$. andrea would earn a higher rate of return by buying yen and a forward contract than if she had invested her money in 6-month us treasury securities at an annual rate of 2.50%. true/false?