New data has revealed which states have to pay the most, and least, for utility bills, showing the significant amount households have to pay to cover the costs. According to the third-party bill ...

Andriy Blokhin has 5+ years of professional experience in public accounting, personal investing, and as a senior auditor with Ernst & Young. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as a leading consumer ...

Why do individuals value bread less than gold, when bread seems to be more important in supporting an individual’s life than gold? To provide an answer to this question, economists refer to the law of ...

Estimate demand function to understand initial product pricing vs. quantity. Use derivative for the revenue equation to find marginal revenue changes. Marginal revenue derivative is a tool to guide ...

Marginal utility helps set product pricing; high initial satisfaction decreases with more units. Some stores use bulk pricing when consumers value additional items less. Progressive taxes assume each ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 41, No. 1 (February 2016), pp. 146-173 (28 pages) This paper investigates the problem of maximizing expected terminal utility in a (generically incomplete) ...

As a person with a chronic illness, I'm no stranger to bloodwork. I used to pore over my lab results, googling the various meanings, and trying not to panic when a test fell out of range. Function ...

Using the best utility knife (also known as a box cutter) is crucial, as they’re one of the most useful and versatile tools you can have around the house. Their short, extremely sharp blades and ...

Graph database vendor Neo4j Inc. is teaming up with Snowflake Inc. to make a library of Neo4j’s graph analytics functions available in the Snowflake cloud. The deal announced today allows users to ...