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Bank A offers to lend you money at 10 percent compounded monthly, Bank B at 11 percent compounded quarterly, and Bank C at 12 pe

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Answer and Explanation:

The computation is given below:

For Bank A,

Effective annual rate is

= (1 + 0.10 ÷ 12)^12 - 1

= 10.47%

For Bank B,

Effective annual rate is

= (1 + 0.11 ÷ 4)^4 - 1

= 11.46%

And,

For Bank C,

Effective annual rate = 12%

Therefore, Bank A is best to borrow at lowest effective annual rate

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2 years ago

While a mechanic works on his car, a taxi driver takes Robert to his job as a warehouse laborer. At the end of his shift, he mak

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They have high school degrees with some or no college experience.

Explanation:

The workers in Transportation and Logistics careers usually have high school degrees with some or no college experience.

Although they do not need a degree or diploma, they usually have a high school degree.

Students in transportation, distribution and logistics learn and practice skills for various post-high school education and training opportunities.

Career and technical education programs provides career oriented hands on learning pathways

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As a result of new global competition, companies have had to make a wide variety of high-quality custom-designed products at a v

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Answer:

Number 4 is correct. <u>Mass customization.</u>

Explanation:

In this question, the most appropriate alternative is mass customization.

It can be defined as a process where companies produce goods and services for an expanded market, but that such products are modified and personalized to meet the needs and desires of a potential customer.

Mass customization allows the company to produce customized products with the advantage of productive flexibility and low unit costs that come from the mass manufacturing process.

This is a marketing strategy that is used to generate value for the consumer, since the company is able to offer a product with greater added benefits and at the same time maintain low manufacturing costs, which creates value and increases consumer satisfaction.

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The bank is working to develop an efficient work schedule for full-time and part-time tellers. The schedule must provide for eff

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Answer:

The solution is given below.

Explanation:

It is a practical, complex scheduling problem that can be easily modelled and solved as IP. Note that part time and full time employees are paid at different rates. So, it is important that the bank operates to provide required service level (indicated by the number of tellers per hour) while minimizing total cost due to staff salary.

We use x as full time and y as part time staff.

It would help if you construct a table as shown below to better analyze the problem before attempting to model it. Red shows work hrs of full time staff and green is for part timers. Just follow their work hour rules.

So, full timers have 3 options:

(i) start at 9 – work till 1pm, take 1 hr break, then work 2 – 5 pm

(ii) start at 10 – work till 2pm, take 1 hr break, then work 3 – 6 pm

(iii) start at 11 – work till 3pm, take 1 hr break, then work 4 – 7 pm

that’s all… bank closes at 7 pm.

However, part timers don’t have 1 hr break. They work straight 4 hrs and leave. See green cells above to understand their alternatives.

Now, decision variables should include this work hour information. Here goes their definition. You must clearly define decision variables in exam, otherwise, the model is meaningless.

X9 = number of full time staff who start at 9 and follow the hour-related rule (no need to specify more details; those are already undestood)

X10 = number of full time staff who start at 10 and follow the hour-related rule

X11 = number of full time staff who start at 11 and follow the hour-related rule

Y9 = number of part time staff who start at 9 and follow the hour-related rule

Y10 = number of part time staff who start at 10 and follow the hour-related rule

…. This way you define up to Y15.

You must also specify that:

Xi, Yi >=0, integers.

Objective Function:

Minimize Z = 105*(x9 + x10 + x11) + 32* (y9 + y10 + … + y 15)

You will need one “covering” constraint for each working hour. Both full and part-timers can “cover” the duty of each hour. Look at the color-coded table (above) column-wise. The 9:00-10:00 hour can be covered only by x9 and y9 staff; next hour by x9, x10, y9, y10 only,… and so on. So, the

constraints are: (attached with image)

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Assume a large corporation is experiencing the principal-agent problem. What could the corporation do to minimize this problem

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Answer:

1) Structure rewards/pay to be based on performance

2)Make them stakeholders/shareholders of the principal

Explanation:

The major principal/agent problem is the agent not acting in the best interest of the principal. Taking the steps above could minimize the problem

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