Salaries are usually reviewed annually. Suppose that aunion negotiates a pay increase of 5% for its members.If inflation is running at 4%, how much better off are the unionmembers?

You are the accountant for a company that owns a chain of 18 fast food restaurants in a state which adjusts the minimum wage for inflation. Each restaurant employs 45 workers, each averaging 20 hours per week at the current federal minimum wage, $7.25 per hour.(a)How many hours at minimum wage are paid out each week by the company?hr(b)At the current rate of $7.25 per hour, what is the amount (in $) of the weekly "minimum wage" portion of the restaurant's payroll?$ (c)If the inflation rate this year is 0.7%, calculate the "adjusted" minimum wage rate (in $ per hour) to be paid next year. (Round your answer to two decimal places.)$ per hour(d)How much in "additional wages" will the company have to pay out next year at the adjusted rate (in $)? (Round your answer to the nearest dollar.)$ (e)Suggest some ways that the restaurant chain or other small businesses can offset the increase in payroll and subsequent decrease in profit as a result of the minimum wage hike.

A paper included analysis of data from a national sample of 1,000 Americans. One question on the survey is given below. "You owe $3,000 on your credit card. You pay a minimum payment of $30 each month. At an Annual Percentage Rate of 12% (or 1% per month), how many years would it take to eliminate your credit card debt if you made no additional charges?" Answer options for this question were: (a) less than 5 years; (b) between 5 and 10 years; (c) between 10 and 15 years; (d) never-you will continue to be in debt; (e) don't know; and (f) prefer not to answer. A USE SALT (a) Only 355 of the 1,000 respondents chose the correct answer of "never." Assume that the sample is representative of adult Americans. Is there convincing evidence that the proportion of adult Americans who can answer this question correctly is less than 0.40 (40%)? Use the five-step process for hypothesis testing (HMC3) described in this section and a = 0.05 to test the appropriate hypotheses. (Hint: See Example…

If the annual rate of inflation is 4%, find the price of a good at the end of a year if its price at the beginning of the year was $25. Select one: O a. $20 O b. $24 O c. $26 O d. $30 O e. $35

A paper included analysis of data from a national sample of 1,000 Americans. One question on the survey is given below. "You owe $3,000 on your credit card. You pay a minimum payment of $30 each month. At an Annual Percentage Rate of 12% (or 1% per month), how many years would it take to eliminate your credit card debt if you made no additional charges?" Answer options for this question were: (a) less than 5 years; (b) between 5 and 10 years; (c) between 10 and 15 years; (d) never—you will continue to be in debt; (e) don't know; and (f) prefer not to answer.   The paper also reported that 37.1% of those in the sample chose one of the wrong answers (a, b, or c) as their response to this question. Is it reasonable to conclude that more than one-third of adult Americans would select a wrong answer to this question? Use  ? = 0.05.  (Round your test statistic to two decimal places and your P-value to four decimal places.) State the appropriate null and alternative hypotheses. H0: p =…

A certificate of deposit​ (CD) is similar to a savings​ account, but deposits are generally held to maturity. They usually offer higher rates than savings accounts because they​ "tie up" money for a period of time and often require a minimum deposit. A 3​-year CD at a certain bank has a nominal rate of 2.085​%, and an effective annual yield of 2.100​%. If ​$800 is deposited with this​ bank, how much will be in the account at the end of the 3 ​years?