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Rate of Return on a Speculative Investment ................ 9.58Investment at an Intermediate Date (Ambiguous
Case) ................................................................. 9.59Payback Period of an Investment ................................. 9.60Payback Period to Yield a Given Investment Rate ....... 9.61Benefit-Cost Analysis ................................................... 9.61Analysis of Business Operations .......................................... 9.63Linear Programming to Maximize Income from
Joint Products .................................................... 9.63Allocation of Production among Multiple Facilities
with Nonlinear Costs .......................................... 9.64Optimal Product Mix with Nonlinear Profits .................. 9.65Dynamic Programming to Minimize Cost of
Transportation .................................................... 9.67Optimal Inventory Level ............................................... 9.69Effect of Quantity Discount on Optimal Inventory
Level .................................................................. 9.71Project Planning by the Critical-Path Method ............... 9.71Project Planning Based on Available Workforce ........... 9.77Statistics, Probability, and their Applications ........................ 9.80Determination of Arithmetic Mean, Median, and
Standard Deviation ............................................. 9.80Determination of Arithmetic Mean and Standard
Deviation of Grouped Data ................................. 9.82Number of Ways of Assigning Work ............................. 9.83Formation of Permutations Subject to a
Restriction .......................................................... 9.84Formation of Combinations Subject to a
Restriction .......................................................... 9.84Probability of a Sequence of Events ............................. 9.86Probability Associated with a Series of Trials ............... 9.86