The retail price of a television set is $2500. If the buyer pays cash, the price is 10% below the retail price. If the set is bought on hire purchase, the buyer pays a downpayment of $500 and 18 monthly installments of $150. A .) Determine the difference between the hire purchase price and the cash price.
B.) Calculate the difference as a percentage of the retail price.

Acompany manufactures large valves, packed in boxes. a shipment consists of 1500 valves packed in 75 boxes. each box has the outer dimensions 1.2 x 0.8 x 1.6 m and the inner dimensions 1.19 x 0.79 x 1.59 m. the boxes are loaded on a vehicle (truck + trailer). the available capacity in the vehicle combination is 140 m3. each valve has a volume of 0.06 m3. - calculate the load factor on the box level (%). - calculate the load factor on the vehicle level (%). - calculate the overall load factor (%).