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How much would it cost for Chester Corporation to repurchase all its outstanding shares if new brokerage fees totaled 1% of the underlying transaction?

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$87.1 million

$92.2 million

$94.1 million

$88.9 million

2.

The Baldwin company will continue to train their existing workforce at their current level to help reduce turnover and improve productivity next year. Employee training costs have increased to $30 per hour. How much would their training costs per employee be to the nearest dollar?

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$2,382

$1,182

$400

$1,200

3.

Suppose you were hired as a consultant for a company that wants to penetrate the Comp-XM market. This company wants to pursue a niche differentiation strategy. From last years reports, which company would be the strongest competitor?

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Chester

Baldwin

Andrews

Digby

4.

The Digby company will increase its automation for the Dune product by 2.0. Assuming no further change in capacity, how much will this investment in automation cost?

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$8,050,000

$9,200,000

$18,400,000

$16,100,000

5.

Chester has a new design for their product Coat next round that can reduce their material cost of producing units from $8.14 to $7.32. Chester passes on half of all cost savings by cutting the current price to customers. For simplicity: - Use current labor costs of $3.95 - Assume all period costs as reported on Chester's Income Statement (Annual Rpt Pg 2) will remain the same. Determine how many units (000) of product Coat would need to be sold next round to break even on the product.

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	1,281 units.
	933 units.
	788 units.
	985 units.
	1,044 units.
	1,998 units.