A representative from the Governor's Conference has requeued a block of 200 rooms for three days at a $75 rate. This conference is attended by people who know how to entertain, and the projected food and beverage expenditure per person is significant. During that same three-day period, a jazz concert is scheduled in the city. In the past, reservations from this group plus walk ins have allowed you to achieve 100% occupancy (200 rooms) at a $135 rate (rack rate is $95). However, the jazz enthusiasts do not have a positive history of large food and beverage purchases. What would you do? Which group would you target? Explain your decision.

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60