Aproject to build a new bridge seems to be going very well since the project is well ahead of schedule and costs seem to be running very low. a major milestone has been reached where the first two activities have been totally completed and the third activity is 63% complete. the planners were only expecting to be 52% through the third activity at this time. the first activity involves prepping the site for the bridge. it was expected that this would cost $1,422,000 and it was done for only $1,302,000. the second activity was the pouring of concrete for the bridge. this was expected to cost $10,502,000 but was actually done for $9,002,000. the third and final activity is the actual construction of the bridge superstructure. this was expected to cost a total of $8,502,000. to date they have spent $5,002,000 on the superstructure. calculate the schedule variance, schedule performance index, and cost performance index for the project to date. (round your "performance index" values to 3 decimal places.) schedule variance $ schedule performance index cost performance index

1. consider a two-firm industry. firm 1 (the incumbent) chooses a level of output qı. firm 2 (the potential entrant) observes qı and then chooses its level of output q2. the demand for the product is p 100 q, where q is the total output sold by the two firms which equals qi +q2. assume that the marginal cost of each firm is zero. a) find the subgame perfect equilibrium levels of qi and q2 keeping in mind that firm 1 chooses qi first and firm 2 observes qi and chooses its q2. find the profits of the two firms-n1 and t2- in the subgame perfect equilibrium. how do these numbers differ from the cournot equilibrium? b) for what level of qi would firm 2 be deterred from entering? would a rational firm 1 have an incentive to choose this level of qi? which entry condition does this market have: blockaded, deterred, or accommodated? now suppose that firm 2 has to incur a fixed cost of entry, f> 0. c) for what values of f will entry be blockaded? d) find out the entry deterring level of q, denoted by q1', a expression for firm l's profit, when entry is deterred, as a function of f. for what values of f would firm 1 use an entry deterring strategy?

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After four years aspen earned 510$ in simple interest from a cd into which she initially deposited $3000 what was the annual interest rate of the cd