Ayayai, Inc. manufactures afghans. The budgeted units to be produced and sold are as follows: Expected Production Expected Sales August 3,400 2,900 September 2,800 3,900 It takes 16 yards of yarn to produce an afghan. The company's policy is to maintain yarn at the end of each month equal to 5% of next month's production needs and to maintain a finished goods inventory at the end of each month equal to 20% of next month's anticipated production needs. The cost of yarn is $0.20 a yard. At August 1, 2,720 yards of yarn were on hand. Compute the budgeted cost of direct materials purchases for August. Budgeted cost of direct materials purchases for August

Who is better at multi-tasking? in business, employees are often asked to perform a complex task when their atten-tion is divided (i.e., multi-tasking). human factors (may 2014) published a study designed to determine whether video game players are better than non–video game play-ers at multi-tasking. each in a sample of 60 college stu-dents was classified as a video game player or a non-player. participants entered a street crossing simulator and were asked to cross a busy street at an unsigned intersec-tion. the simulator was designed to have cars traveling at various high rates of speed in both directions. during the crossing, the students also performed a memory task as a distraction. two variables were measured for each student: (1) a street crossing performance score (measured out of 100 points) and (2) a memory task score (measured out of 20 points). the researchers found no differences in either the street crossing performance or memory task score of video game players and non-gamers. “these results,” say the researchers, “suggest that action video game players [and non-gamers] are equally susceptible to the costs of dividing attention in a complex task”

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Jamie is saving for a trip to europe. she has an existing savings account that earns 3 percent annual interest and has a current balance of $4,200. jamie doesn’t want to use her current savings for vacation, so she decides to borrow the $1,600 she needs for travel expenses. she will repay the loan in exactly one year. the annual interest rate is 6 percent. a. if jamie were to withdraw the $1,600 from her savings account to finance the trip, how much interest would she forgo? .b. if jamie borrows the $1,600 how much will she pay in interest? c. how much does the trip cost her if she borrows rather than dip into her savings?