Answer:
TRUE, many business users in the 1980s referred to their mainframes as "the black hole".
Explanation:
- Most enterprise users in the 1980s referred to their computers as "the black hole," since all the experience went into this one, but little ever went back and it was nearly hard to test ad hoc in actual-time.
- Business software have shifted from encoding and monitoring of transactions to other operations.
- Before the 1980s, the knowledge and program demands were often diverted into a ' black hole ' queue through mainframe networks of ' dumb ' terminals.
Answer:
Explanation:
To deplete is to reduce in quantity, so if a product depletes it means the demand of that product has increased, and an increase is represented by a rightward change.
The likely consequence would be to order for new products, there may be stock out costs such as loss of goodwill, loss of sales etc. Investment would increase for that product and period to exploit the sales better and increase earnings, so money would be spent to order, transport and store the product.
Answer:
2014 CPI= 101.5
2013 CPI= 100.8333333
2014 Inflation Rate= 0.66%
Explanation:
Consumer Price Index (CPI):
The index is calculated by taking the price of the basket in one year and dividing it by the price of the basket in another year. This ratio is then multiplied by 100.
Basket Price:
is the sum of the product of the quantitys and prices of the goods thata compose the basket for any given year.
Inflation Rate:
CPI (x+1) - CPI (x)
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CPI (x)