. Five friends (Adam, Beth, Carl, Diane, and Eric) have a weekly meetup for dinner. During the first week Adam and Beth pay $50 each to cover the group’s expenses. During the second week Carl pays $80 and Diane pays $30. During the third week Adam pays $35, Beth pays $15, Carl pays $20, and Eric pays $45. During the fourth week Adam pays $35, Diane pays $65, and Eric pays $5. The five friends then decide to split all of the dinners equally and calculate who owes who how much money. a. Who ends up owing money and how much does each person owe? b. Write out the fewest transactions needed to ‘settle up’ (make it so everyone paid the same amount). Example: Eric pays Adam $20

Ardmore farm and seed has an inventory dilemma. they have been selling a brand of very popular insect spray for the past year. they have never really analyzed the costs incurred from ordering and holding the inventory and currently fave a large stock of the insecticide in the warehouse. they estimate that it costs $25 to place an order, and it costs $0.25 per gallon to hold the spray. the annual requirements total 80,000 gallons for a 365 day year. a. assuming that 10,000 gallons are ordered each time an order is placed, estimate the annual inventory costs. b. calculate the eoq. c. given the eoq calculated in part b., how many orders should be placed and what is the average inventory balance? d. if it takes seven days to receive an order from suppliers, at what inventory level should ardmore place another order?

A. j. was a newly hired attorney for idle time gaming, inc. even though he reported directly to the president of the company, a. j. noticed that the president always had time to converse with the director of sales, calling on him to get a pulse on legal/regulatory issues that, as the company attorney, a. j. could have probably handled. a. j. also noted that the hr manager’s administrative assistant was the go-to person for a number of things that would make life easier at work. a. j. was recognizing the culture at idle time gaming.

Summarize the specific methods used by interest groups in order to influence governmental decisions making in all three branches of government. provide at least two examples from each branch.