Chuck Stout is the RM for the Holiday Inn Express. His 220-room property normally sells 85 percent of its rooms on Tuesday nights at an ADR of $141.50. All variable costs related to selling his rooms are $55.00 per room. The DOSM at his Holiday Inn Express is proposing to place a bid to sell 125 rooms for a Tuesday night next month at a rate of $109.00 per room. Chuck believes that if the hotel wins this group rooms bid, the transient room sales for that day will ensure a sell-out at the rate of $141.50.

What would be the total amount of after-variable costs rooms’ revenue the hotel will achieve if it wins the group rooms contract?

What would be the after-variable room’s income if the hotel does not win the contract?

If a hotel sells room nights for $80 with a $20 variable cost per room and incurs $17,000 in fixed expenses monthly. What is the breakeven revenue?

$22,666.97

$22,666.87

$22,666.77

$22,666.67

A survey claims that the average cost of a hotel room in Atlanta is more than $125.50 per night. To test this claim, a researcher selects a random sample of 55 hotel rooms and finds that the mean cost per night is $130.75. The standard deviation of the population, σ, is known to be $2.50. At a = 0.05, is there enough evidence to support the claim?

Use the P-Value Method of Testing.

In your work space below, you will need to have -
1. The null hypothesis, Ho
2. The alternative hypothesis, H1
3. The test statistic
4. The type of test(left, right, two-tailed) and the p-value
5. The decision to accept Ho or reject Ho

The Little Theatre is a nonprofit organization devoted to staging plays for children. The theater has a very small full-time professional administrative staff. Through a special arrangement with the actors’ union, actors and directors rehearse without pay and are paid only for actual performances.

The Little Theatre had tentatively planned to put on five different productions with a total of 50 performances. For example, one of the productions was Peter Rabbit, which had a five-week run with three performances on each weekend. The costs from the current year’s planning budget appear below.

Some of the costs vary with the number of productions, some with the number of performances, and some are fixed and depend on neither the number of productions nor the number of performances. The costs of scenery, costumes, props, and publicity vary with the number of productions. It doesn’t make any difference how many times Peter Rabbit is performed, the cost of the scenery is the same. Likewise, the cost of publicizing a play with posters and radio commercials is the same whether there are 10, 20, or 30 performances of the play. On the other hand, the wages of the actors, directors, stagehands, ticket booth personnel, and ushers vary with the number of performances. The greater the number of performances, the higher the wage costs will be. Similarly, the costs of renting the hall and printing the programs will vary with the number of performances. Administrative expenses are more difficult to pin down, but the best estimate is that approximately 65% of the budgeted costs are fixed, 20% depend on the number of productions staged, and the remaining 15% depend on the number of performances.

After the beginning of the year, the board of directors of the theater authorized expanding the theater’s program to four productions and a total of 54 performances. Not surprisingly, actual costs were considerably higher than the costs from the planning budget. (Grants from donors and ticket sales were also correspondingly higher, but are not shown here.) Data concerning the actual costs appear below:

Required:

1. Prepare a flexible budget performance report for the year that shows both spending variances and activity variances. (Indicate the effect of each variance by selecting "F" for favorable, "U" for unfavorable, and "None" for no effect (i.e., zero variance). Input all amounts as positive values.)

You are hoping to get an estimate of the number of birch trees in a local park. You have a satellite image of the park, and plan to use quadrat sampling to estimate the number of birch trees in the park. The park is 1000m by 1000m. Describe how you can set up your quadrat and how you would then use the data you collect to estimate the number of trees in the entire park. (Include a sample calculation).

Pecan Theater Inc. owns and operates movie theaters throughout Florida and Ga. Pecan Theater has declared the following annual dividends over a six-year period ending December 31 of each year, the outstanding stock of the company was composed of 30,000 shares of cumulative, 4% preferred stock, $100 par, and 100,000 shares of common stock, $25 par.

1. Determine the total dividends and the per share dividends declared on each class of stock for each of the six years. There were no dividends in arrears at the beginning of Year 1. Summarize the data in tabular form. If required, round your answers to two decimal places. If the amount is zero, please enter "0".
Year.    Total Dividends. Preferred/Common
1.           48,000                 total? per share?
2.           144,000
3.           288,000
4.           276,000
5.           336,000
6.           420,000
2. Determine the average annual dividend per share for each class of stock for the six-year period. If required, round your answers to two decimal places.
Average annual dividend for preferred_____ per share
Average annual dividend for common_____per share
3. Assuming a market price per share of $253 for the preferred stock and $31 for the common stock, determine the average annual percentage return on initial shareholders' investment, based on the average annual dividend per share for preferred stock and for common stock.
Preferred stock______%
Common stock______%

Playland at Pacific National Exhibition is an amusement park offering 31 different rides (including 4 rollercoasters and 1 water ride). The guests who are 48” or taller can go on any ride they want and so they get more value from visiting the park; let us say their individual demand is given by P = 5 – 0.25qO, where P is the price per ride ($ per ride) and qO is the number of the rides (per day) (the subscript O stands for “One Day;” that’s how the park calls its passes for the guests who are 48” or taller). The guests who are under 48” are not allowed on certain rides so they get less value from visiting the park; let us say their individual demand is given by P = 4 – 0.25qJ, where P is the price per ride ($ per ride) and qJ is the number of the rides (per day) (the subscript J stands for “Jr. One Day;” that’s how the park calls its passes for the guests under 48”). Assume it costs the park flat ¢25 per guest to operate a single ride, and it costs the park flat ¢75 to issue a single ticket to a ride. Assume there are 500 guests 48” or taller and 500 guests under 48” on an average day. We can consider Playland a monopolist in Vancouver

If Playland employed a two-part tariff scheme (the park may choose to ticket each ride, or they may choose to let people go on as many rides [at zero price per ride] as they want and only charge the gate fee for the access to the rides),

6. what would be the gate entry fee for guests 48” or taller ($ per guest)?

7. what would be the gate entry fee for guests under 48” ($ per guest)?

8. what would be the price per ride ($ per ride)?

9. what is Playland’s profit on an average day ($ per day)? Assume zero fixed cost.

A theater is presenting a program on drinking and driving for students and their parents or other responsible adults. The proceeds will be donated to a local alcohol information center. Admission is

$ 2.00$2.00

for adults and

$ 1.00$1.00

for students.​ However, this situation has two​ constraints: The theater can hold no more than

150150

people and for every two​ adults, there must be at least one student. How many adults and students should attend to raise the maximum amount of​ money?

Problem 2: The average Saturday attendance at a movie theater is 974 people with a standard deviation of 54 people. A random sample of 39 Saturdays is selected

Part A: What is the probability that a sample mean will be either less than 954 people or greater than 970 people?

Part B: There is a 97% chance that a sample mean will be above what attendance level?

Part C: What is the probability that more than 1000 people will attend the theater this Saturday?