A company is preparing to launch a new web site to sell its products. From past experience, they know that purchases at the site will occur as a Poisson process with on average 30 purchases every 10 minutes. a) What is the expected time in minutes before the first purchase after the site opens? Give your answer to four decimal places.
b) What is the probability that more than 0.14 minutes pass before the first purchase? Give your answer to four decimal places.
c) What is the expected time in minutes until the fifth purchase? Give your answer to four decimal places.

The simple interest in a loan of $200 at 10 percent interest per year is

Lambert manufacturing has $100,000 to invest in either project a or project b. the following data are available on these projects (ignore income taxes.): project a project b cost of equipment needed now $100,000 $60,000 working capital investment needed now - $40,000 annual cash operating inflows $40,000 $35,000 salvage value of equipment in 6 years $10,000 - both projects will have a useful life of 6 years and the total cost approach to net present value analysis. at the end of 6 years, the working capital investment will be released for use elsewhere. lambert's required rate of return is 14%. the net present value of project b is:

Hubert manages a grocery store in a country experiencing a high rate of inflation. to keep up with inflation, he spends a lot of time every day updating the prices, printing new price tags, and sending out newspaper inserts advertising the new prices. his employees regularly deal with customer annoyance over the frequent price changes. this is an example of the of inflation.