A consulting business must pay its expenses, but not all of those expenses can be determined before signing a contract. While fixed costs such as office rent, utilities and insurance payments add up ...

Both in the mathematical sense and in the business world, an independent variable is one that stands alone and is not affected by outside forces. When it comes to evaluating cost in business, ...

A fixed cost is one that your business incurs whether or not it makes any sales. An example is rent: It has to be paid every month whether or not you're generating any income, and it's the same every ...

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A route selection algorithm is presented for designing transportation networks. The algorithm balances fixed construction costs and variable user costs in a network having a fixed set of nodes and a ...