Chapter One Analysis
Based on the Excel Problem of chapter one, if the total capacity for this business is 725 will you stay in it? If you want to stay in it what price you need to obtain a break even point of 725?
On Problem #4 the Break-Even Analysis was as follows:
Price per Unit $1.50
V. Cost per Unit $0.50
Total Fixed Cost $750.00
Break Even in Units= Fixed Cost Unit Contribution margin=
Unit Contribution Margin (Price per Unit – V. Cost per Unit)
= 750/ (1.50 - .50) = 750 units
Break Even Point = Price per Unit x Break Even in Units
750 units x $1.50 = $1125
To be fair and honest as a student I would not stay in a business that I break even with no profit and doing a lot of effort just for the
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We can infer that the month had a major impact on the profit rather than the cost per unit.
Chapter Three Analysis
Based on problem 8, which data set is more stable. Base your answer on standard deviation values. Compare both frequency histograms and which shows a normal distribution behavior?
The standard Deviation comparing both sets of data only shows a slight difference on the numbers (a difference of only 1.38187054), but in the histograms both show a huge difference on the frequencies of each data set, but shows a similarity on the cumulative percentage. Data set #2 seem to be more stable even though the grades of the student were lower than data set #1. Data set#2 shows a relative stability in regards the frequency on the histograms, when comparing the frequency histograms data set #2 has more frequency on number two’s than data set #1 on frequency on the number three’s. In this case Data set #2 shows a normal distribution behavior.
Based on problem 11, if you are the owner of the Eastern airlines how many seats do you need to cover the East Coast flights with a monthly total demand of 487,000 people for the entire airline? If the airplane has 200 seats, how you will distribute them by first class, business class and coach?
In this case we can infer that there are 100 seats in the plane, therefore making a total of 100% passengers. On the
2. Based on the scale of measurement for each variable listed below, which measure of central tendency is most appropriate for describing the data?
Standard Deviation of Mean= 0.4762Standard Deviation of Median= 0.7539The standard deviation of the Mean is smaller, which means all of the data points will tend to be very close to the Mean. The Median with a larger Standard Deviation will tend to have data points spread out over a large range of values. Since the Mean has the smaller value of the Standard Deviations, it has the least variability.
In our second assumption, instead of using the cost of goods per cases in 1986, we try to use the percentage it counts in the total expenses which is 50.4% and to find the sales needed to break-even. The detail of the calculation is shown in the answer for questions d. The result is that 95,635, a little bit higher than the estimated sales of 90,000.
Although the financial goal is to create profit, we need to calculate the breakeven point to get started.
At breakeven, Q=6,658 paying customers who will be in attendance with an additional .25 x 6,658 = 1,665 comp customers.
Standard deviation is important in comparing two different sets of data that has the same mean score. One standard deviation may be small (1.85), where the other standard deviation score could be quite large (10)(Rumsey,
In order to be able to distribute the values within this lab we will be using Histograms. Although this is similar to a bar graph histograms are very different. Where in a bar graph we make our bars in any given order a histograms purpose is understand the frequency
Conclusion: The drawn hypothesis is accepted, or in other words supported by the collected data to a certain extent. Both the raw data tables as well as the graphs show accuracy to a certain extent which goes to show that there was error, however minimal. The hypothesis stated the the more hypertonic the sucrose solution, the less increase in potato mass there will be. It even suggests that mass might increase.
• Airline’s profitability hinged on the fraction of its flown seats occupied by passengers- load factor
By computing number of cups of coffee students drink per week, out of 22 students 16 students are not consuming coffee so median and mode is 0 while the mean is 4.09 mainly because two students are consuming 28 times in a week. The standard deviation of the data is 8.60.
70% of seats are sold at the lowest two fares.30% of seats are charged at higher fares. The last 6% are sold at the highest fare
Choice (a) would not fit since stem plots are best used to display fairly small data sets and to see the distribution’s shape, and the appropriate choice, the boxplot, is also included as inappropriate when in actuality this is not true. Choice (c) is wrong since a bar graph and a pie chart are both used to compare categorical data, which is not being compared in this question. Although in choice (d) it is correct that a dot plot would be inappropriate since there aren’t any observed frequencies with the same scores, using a histogram would be inappropriate instead of appropriate since, it was already proven that using this type of graph is not the best when comparing a large data set as this one. Choice (e) is obviously wrong, since it was proven above that a boxplot is the most appropriate way to display the data, which disagrees with the statement that none of the above are correct.
This would account for 99.7% of the area under the curve. According to this theory, virtually all flights would have between 122 – 182 passengers.
Break-even point in total sales dollars =(Fixed expenses)/(CM ratios) = (400,000)/(0.5466) = 732,000 $ (Rounded)
As shown on the income statement the profit margin has been negative in the airline industry since 2000. However, in 2006 U.S. airlines generated an operating margin of 4.6 percent on operating profits. After factoring in $4.1 billion in interest expense, $653 million in income taxes and $301 million in miscellaneous non-operating income, the industry posted net earnings of $3.0 billion and net profit margin of only 1.9 percent. This was well below the average for U.S. corporations. In 2006 things started changing for the airline industry. In 2006 passenger airlines utilize nearly four fifths of the seating capacity. Also, rising passenger yield and aggressive cost control drove the average break-even load factor down