Because you are known as the most knowledgeable sales manager in the area of new customer development, your coworkers often defer to you when making decisions. what type of power do you have?

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1

White truffles are a very prized and rare edible fungus that grow naturally in the countryside near alba, italy. suppose that it costs $200 per day to search for white truffles. on an average day, the total number of white truffles (t) found in alba is t = 20x − x 2 , where x is the number of people searching for white truffles on that day. white truffles can be sold for $100 each. if there is no regulation, how many more people will be searching for white truffles than the socially optimal number?

Suppose a movie theater determines it can charge different prices to patrons who go to weekday matinees and people who attend evening and weekend shows . the movie theater's goal is to increase total revenue. the price elasticity of demand for weekend and evening patrons is -0.40, and the price elasticity of demand for matinee moviegoers is -1.90. based on the price elasticity of demand for each group of people, how should the movie theater adjust its prices?