Henry is an economist and wants to understand the relationship between inflation and consumer spending habits. For his research, he needs the Consumer Price Index for 2014 and the Inflation rate. Based on the prices of goods given, what will to he find to be the CPI and Inflation rate for
2014? Assume that a consumer's basket for three consecutive years consists of the following:
Year
Price of an Apple
Number of Apples
Consumed
Price of an
Orange
Number of Oranges
Consumed
2012
2
3
3
2
2013
3
2
2014
Ut
5
Consider 2012 to be the base year.
• A.
100 CPI, 49.56 percent inflation
© B. 165 CPI, 45.40 percent inflation
© C. 185 CPI, 55.35 percent inflation
O D. 175 CPI, 60.56 percent Inflation
O E. 125 CPI, 50.60 percent inflation

Auniversity spent $1.8 million to install solar panels atop a parking garage. these panels will have a capacity of 400 kilowatts (kw) and have a life expectancy of 20 years. suppose that the discount rate is 20%, that electricity can be purchased at $0.10 per kilowatt-hour (kwh), and that the marginal cost of electricity production using the solar panels is zero. hint: it may be easier to think of the present value of operating the solar panels for 1 hour per year first. approximately how many hours per year will the solar panels need to operate to enable this project to break even? a. a.3,696.48 b.14,785.92 c.9,241.20 if the solar panels can operate only for 8,317 hours a year at maximum, the project (would/would not)break even?

Select the correct answer. ramon applied to the state university in the city where he lives, but he was denied admission. what should he do now? a. change his mind about graduating and drop out of high school so he can start working right away. b. decide not to go to college, because he didn’t have a backup plan. c. stay positive and write a mean letter to let the college know that they made a bad decision. d. learn from this opportunity, reevaluate his options, and apply to his second and third choices.

Performance bicycle company makes steel and titanium handle bars for bicycles. it requires approximately 1 hour of labor to make one handle bar of either type. during the most recent accounting period, barr company made 7,700 steel bars and 2,300 titanium bars. setup costs amounted to $35,000. one batch of each type of bar was run each month. if a single company-wide overhead rate based on direct labor hours is used to allocate overhead costs to the two products, the amount of setup cost assigned to the steel bars will be: