The Owner of an Amusement Park Has Decided to Open

question 50

Multiple Choice

The owner of an amusement park has decided to open a second entry booth and hire another employee to service customers entering the park.Customers arrive at the rate of 20 per hour and will wait in a single line until one of the two employees is available to provide service.The average service time of both employees is 2 minutes to provide service.The arrival rate follows Poisson distribution,and the service time follows a negative exponential distribution.It is estimated that the cost of customer waiting time associated with dissatisfied customers and loss of goodwill is $20 per hour.The employee at the service booth is paid $10 an hour.Determine the total expected cost per day for the waiting line system.Assume total hours of operation as 10 hours per day.

• A)$226.67
• B)$245.67
• C)$216.67
• D)$234.21

Identify and differentiate between perfectly elastic and perfectly inelastic demand and supply.

Analyze the effects of price changes on demand and supply elasticity, including the impact of taxes.

Examine how advertisers influence demand elasticity and consumer perception.

Determine the effects of elasticity on total revenue when prices are raised or lowered.

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Definitions:

Parent-Company Extension Method

An accounting method where the financial statements of the parent company include its investments in subsidiaries without consolidating their individual financial statements.

IFRS 3

An International Financial Reporting Standard that outlines the accounting requirements for business combinations.

Entity Method

A consolidation method wherein investments in subsidiaries are reported at cost and income from the investment is recognized to the extent of dividends received.

Subsidiary

A company that is controlled by another company, typically through ownership of more than half of its voting stock.