Riverside bank offers to lend you $50,000 at a nominal rate of 6.5%, compounded monthly. the loan (principal plus interest) must be repaid at the end of the year. midwest bank also offers to lend you the $50,000, but it will charge an annual rate of 7.0%, with no interest due until the end of the year. how much higher or lower is the effective annual rate charged by midwest versus the rate charged by riverside?

David consumes two things: gasoline (g) and bread (b). david's utility function is u(g, b) = 10g^0.25 b^0.75. use the lagrange technique to solve for david's optimal choices of gasoline and bread as a function of the price of gasoline, p_g, the price of bread, p_b, and his income m. with recent decrease in the price of gasoline (maybe due to external shock such as shale gas production) does david increase his consumption of gasoline? for david, how does partial differential g/partial differential p_g depend on his income m? that is, how does david's change in gasoline consumption due to an increase in the price of gasoline depend on his income level? to answer these questions, find the cross-partial derivative, |partial differential^2 g/partial differential m partial differential p_g.