Creative Learning Centers $($CLC$),$ a for$-$profit firm, operates over $100$ preschools primarily located in the northeast for children ages $46.$ CLC$$s innovative curriculum utilizes the latest technology and offers young minds creative expression, language and social skills, physical movement, music, and number skills$$all provided by professional trained teachers. CLC leases buildings for their schools and invests substantial resources in leasehold improvements for classrooms, technology, and playground equipment. CLC$$s cost of capital is $12$ percent. Typical tuition is about $$6,300$ per year for a page $194$five$-$day$-$a$-$week, four$-$hour$-$per$-$day program. Maria Schnelling manages $15$ CLC schools in the state of Virginia. She has decision$-$making responsibility for staffing and operating her schools, as well as the responsibility for recommending adding new schools and closing existing schools. The following table provides current operating data on all of her $15$ preschools, and breaks out her top$-$ and bottom$-$performing schools