Grear tire company has produced a new tire with an estimated mean lifetime mileage of 36,500 miles. management also believes that the standard deviation is 5000 miles and that tire mileage is normally distributed. to promote the new tire, grear has offered to refund some money if the tire fails to reach 30,000 miles before the tire needs to be replaced. specifically, for tires with a lifetime below 30,000 miles, grear will refund a customer $1 per 100 miles short of 30,000.

a. for each tire sold, what is the expected cost of the promotion?

b. what is the probablility that grear will refund more than $ 50 for a tire?

c. what milage should grear set the promotion claim if it wants the expected cost to be $2?

Which of the following differentiates cost accounting and financial accounting? a. the primary users of cost accounting are the investors, whereas the primary users of financial accounting are the managers. b. cost accounting measures only the financial information related to the costs of acquiring fixed assets in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures financial and nonfinancial information of a company's business transactions. c. cost accounting measures information related to the costs of acquiring or using resources in an organization, whereas financial accounting measures a financial position of a company to investors, banks, and external parties. d. cost accounting deals with product design, production, and marketing strategies, whereas financial accounting deals mainly with pricing of the products.