EM 505 - Decision Models‚ Fall 2012 Homework 3 - December 10-11‚ 2012 1. The diagram below depicts a system of aqueducts that originate at three rivers (nodes R1‚ R2 and R3) and terminate at a major city (node T) where the other nodes are junction points in the system. Using units of thousands of acre feet‚ the tables below show the maximum amount of water that can be pumped through each aqueduct per day and the following diagram shows the network of the system. From/To A R1 75 R2 40 R3 B 65 50
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Alexander College #100 - 602 West Hastings‚ Vancouver British Columbia‚ Canada V6B 1P2 COURSE COMM OUTLINE 2 9 1 “Application of Statistics in Business” Credits : 3 Term : Fall 2014 Days : Tuesday and Thursday Times : 10:30 – 12:00 Noon Location : Instructor: Room 213‚ Vancouver Campus Enrico Tanafranca E-Mail Address: enrico.tanafranca@aconline.ca Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00 - 4:30 PM @ Consultation Room‚ Vancouver Campus Please ask for an appointment if you want to meet your instructor
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on whether to introduce a new product or service line‚ to determine the appropriate sale price and the consequent market position for the firm’s product. Question 1) “Contribution” represents the portion of sales revenue that is not consumed by variable costs and so contributes to the coverage of fixed costs. To compute profit contribution that can be earned by carrying 1 ton of tapioca from Balik Papan to Singapore‚ dock to dock‚ and 1 ton of general merchandise goods from Singapore to Balik Papan
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accurately represent economic earnings at every point in time. Earnings smoothing is a special case of earnings management involving intertemporal smoothing of reported earnings relative to economic earnings; it attempts to make earnings look less variable over time. Earnings smoothing is extensively documented (see Beidlerman 1973; Bannister * The authors thank Sugato Bhattacharyya‚ Ronen Israel‚ David Hirshleifer‚ participants at a finance workshop at the University of Michigan Business School
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Jump to Navigation Frame Your location: Assessments › View All Submissions › View Attempt View Attempt 1 of 2 Title: | Exam 2 (Chapters 10-18) | Started: | July 7‚ 2011 12:16 AM | Submitted: | July 7‚ 2011 2:11 AM | Time spent: | 01:54:47 | Total score: | 94/200 = 47% Total score adjusted by 0.0 Maximum possible score: 200 | 1. | Chapter 10 #265 | | Use this information for questions that refer to the World Tennis Ball (WTB) Company case. World Tennis Ball Co. (WTB) makes
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During our last class session‚ while I was watching the video on random acts of kindness‚ it reminded me that performing random acts of kindness‚ is something that I need to incorporate more into my life on a regular basis. I actually had a warm and fuzzy feeling inside knowing that many people have done so many kind things to me. I too have done many kind things to others; but‚ I had still not decided to incorporate this small thing into my life. I immediately realized that life is about being
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Module information Booklet Taylor’s University Undergraduate Business Programmes BUS1804 Quantitative Methods for Business March Semester 2013 CONTENTS Introduction Module Overview Learning Resources Assessment Resit assessment Assessment offences Extenuating Circumstances Assignment Report and Guidelines Module Calendar March Semester 2013 Assignment Cover Sheet and Feedback Form 2|Page INTRODUCTION WELCOME Welcome to Quantitative Methods of Business‚ this subject provides students
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Case 13: Southeastern Specialty‚ Inc. Financial Risk (1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ & 6) 1. Is the return on the one-year T-bill risk free? No‚ the return on the one-year T-bill is not risk free. Financial risk is related to the probability of earning a return less than expected and the larger the chance of earning a return far below that expected‚ the greater the amount of financial risk. Risk free assumes 100% probability that the investment will earn the total percent of return that is expected. 2. Calculate
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means no control is possible is true or not. Application of the probability in uncertainty This paper examine whether choosing a number by the player worthless. That is‚ ticket buyers who choose their own numbers means‚ simply generating their own random numbers or he is really increasing the probability. This paper categorically proves that uncertainty does not imply a blind situation. If we assume the randomness of the drawing mechanism‚ it is true that every combination of numbers have the same
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Executive Summary The settlement from the insurance company was more than reasonable. The mean estimate excess cost of operations was roughly $254‚000 but that is just the mean estimate. Unfortunately for Krog’s MetalFab Inc. we have zero confidence in this model’s exact mean estimate of $254‚000. We are 95% confident that the estimated excess costs of operation was between roughly $9‚600 using the lower 95% and almost $500‚000 using the upper 95%. Because of this‚ the insurance company should
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