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The repairs that are needed include: New flooring $127 Repair of frame and hitch $ 425 Replace two tires $280 Barney has asked for your help. Develop a plan to tell him whether he should repair or replace his trailer. a. What is his total cost to replace the trailer? b. What is his total cost for repairing his old trailer? c. What should he do? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): 3. You have a contract with Bess Truman High School to replace the tile in a 20 x 40 ft classroom. The school has 14 boxes of tile. The tile that is being used costs $33.75 per box. Each box covers 45 square feet. a. Allowing for a total waste of 10%, how much additional tile is needed? b. How much will it cost? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): 5. Suppose you work for Crown Freight Company. You are analyzing the 8-hour work rate of the companys four loading-dock crews. The dock supervisor tells you that it takes about 1/2 hour for a crew to load each truck. Each employee takes breaks totaling 1-hour during each shift. Organize the information you know and determine how many trucks can be loaded during each 8-hour shift? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): 7. You are responsible for marketing in the local economic cooperative. The cooperatives members produce a variety of products. One of your duties is to calculate the share of marketing costs due to transportation. Transportation costs for eggs are 10% of the marketing cost. Transportation costs for red meat are 5% of the marketing costs. The marketing costs are $600 per ton for eggs and $500 per ton for red meat. The cooperative produces 300 tons of eggs and 700 tons of red meat. a. What are the transportation costs of each item? b. What is the total cost of transportation for these two items? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): 9. Jolene raises corn as a cash crop. On April1, she needed some operating cash to plant her crop. She decided to sell 20,000 bushels of the corn she would produce on the futures market. She receizved $3.10 perbushel and agreed to deliver 20,000 bushels of corn in October. She produced 40,000 bushels of corn. She received $3.60 per bushel for the 20,000 she had not sold on the futures market. a. What is her gross income from the corn crop? b. Instead of selling on the futures market, Jolene could have borrowed $60,000 at 8%single interest and due in October. (She would pay the $60,000 plus 8%of $60,000.) Would this have been a better alternative? HINT: Compare the amount lost by selling corn futures to the interest Jolene must pay on the loan. What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s).Z Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): 11. You are the manager of a small independent oil company. As a sole proprietorship, the company is taxed at a rate of 60% on its gross profit of $200,000. The owner wants to consider reorganizing the company as a Subchapter S corporation. This type of corporation is taxed according to the following schedule. First $25,000 17% Second $25,000 20% Third $25,000 30% Fourth $25,000 40% Remaining funds 46% How much can the company save in taxes by reorganizing? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used). Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct: 13. You are thinking of opening a grocery store in a town with a population of 12,500. The per capita income for the town is $5952. The average food expense is18% of family income. There are no other grocery stores in the town. a. What is the total value of the potential market of your store? b. What would be the potential market of your store if the per capita income were to increase 3%? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct):  15. You are the warehouse foreman at Solid Office Furniture. Business is good and your crew is earning a lot of overtime pay. You need to decide if you should hire another order puller. You now have 3 order pullers. They get time- and-a-half for all time over forty hours in a week. The total hours worked by each order puller for the last four weeks are given in the following table. All the order pullers are paid the same hourly wage. Should you hire another order puller? Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Albert 48 hr 50 hr 45 hr 52 hr Mary 50 hr 49 hr 51 hr 45 hr Bob 51 hr 48 hr 53 hr 50 hr What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): 17. You are an assistant manager for Way Less, a catalog order store. You have been asked for a recommendation about a minicomputer and software package to be used for customer order tracking. The current method costs $23,500 per year. The computer system has an initial cost of $70,000. Not counting the initial cost, the computerized system will be 11% less than the current method. How long will it take the system to pay for itself? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): 19. You are a buyer for Computer Country. You have found a souJrce of 5 1/4 diskettes for $0.15 each. These are the same quality as those you already sell at the store. You are paying $0.25 per diskette now. Your retail selling price on the diskettes is now $0.45. With the new diskettes, you can drop the price to $0.40 each, which you expect to increase sales by 20% over last year. Computer Country sold 43,250 diskettes last year. With the new diskettes, what is the projected gross sales amount for diskettes this year? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the! units used are correct): 21. You are a nutritionist at State Technical College. The football coach has asked you to develop a training-table diet for one of the players. The player needs to gain ten pounds by the beginning of football season in 12 weeks. One pound of body fat is equivalent to 3500 calories. How many excess calories per day should you allow in the diet? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): 23. In the antismoking campaign h-e is working out, John wants to predict the number of lung cancer cases that will occur in the total population. He knows the total population is 30,000,000 people. Twenty-five percent of the population will develop some type of cancer in their lifetime. Twenty-one percent of these cancers will be lung cancers. What is the number of lung cancers projected for the population of 30,000,000? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): N25. You are a hospital dietician. One of your patients has a large fluctuation in his weight. His basal metabolic rate is at 1 calorie per hour per kilogram of body weight. Use the following formula to calculate how many calories he must consume every day to maintain his ideal body weight of 165 pounds. Daily Calorie = 24 Calories x {Body weight in pounds} Kilogram 2.2 Pounds /kilogram What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): 27. You are a home service representative. You are helping design kitchens for a complex of low income retirement homes. The most comfortable table height is given by the formula Table height = User Height x 0.5M The average user height is 68 inches. How tall should the tables be in these kitchens? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): 29. You are a supervisor for Martex, a garment manufacturer. The sewing machines are old and often break down. The operators can produce an average of 50 units per hour when the machines are operating. The company makes a profit of $0.50 on each unit. The owner wants to know how much money is being lost because of down-time. You collect the following data on= the four machines for a forty-hour period. Machine 1 4.0 hour down Machine 2 2.5 hour down Machine 3 3.2 hour down Machine 4 2.3 hour down How much did the down-time cost the company? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct): 31. You are a sales representative for Biggs Motor Service. You have a customer who wants to know how many kilowatt-hours a 6-horse-power motor will use when operated 15 hours a day. You can determine the wat}tage by multiplying the horsepower rating by 1000. The number of watt-hours is found by multiplying the time in hours by the wattage. The number of kilowatt-hours is the watt-hours divided by 1000. What is the kilowatt-hour usage of the motor? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct):  33. You are a computer operator at Electronic Systems. The specifications for the equipment call for the room to be kept at a temperature of less than 200C. The thermometer in the room is calibrated in Fahrenheit degrees instead of Celsius degrees. The temperature is 74oF. Should you call building maintenance to check on the air conditioning in your room? Convert the temperature from Fahrenheit to Celsius using the formula Temperature oC = (Temperature oF - 32) x 5 / 9  What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to beused)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you are close to your estimate and the units used are correct):  35. You are a laser technician in the development division of Spectral Radiation, a laser manufacturer. The laser you are working on will deliver 50 watts. The beam normally has an area of 1.5 square centimeters, but can be focused down to a spot of 0.0001 square centimeter. Use the formula Watts Power Density = Area to calculate the power density of the normal and focused beam. At power densities greater than 400,000 watts per square centimeter, damage to optics becomes a problem. Could this be a problem for you? What are you looking for? What do you need to answer the question? Estimate what your answer(s) might be (think of both numbers and terms to be used)? Write out the methods that you will use to solve the problem and show your work in calculating the answer(s). Your answer(s) are (make sure you a