Country a can produce, at most, 50 olives or 25 pickles, or some combination of olives and pickles such as the 30 olives and 10 pickles it is currently producing. country b can produce, at most, 130 olives or 65 pickles, or some combination of olives and pickles such as the 90 olives and 20 pickles it is currently producing.
b. how would your answer change if you knew that the per unit cost of producing pickles and olives falls as more of each is produced? which country would you have produce which good?

Turrubiates corporation makes a product that uses a material with the following standards standard quantity 8.0 liters per unit standard price $2.50 per liter standard cost $20.00 per unit the company budgeted for production of 3,800 units in april, but actual production was 3,900 units. the company used 32,000 liters of direct material to produce this output. the company purchased 20,100 liters of the direct material at $2.6 per liter. the direct materials purchases variance is computed when the materials are purchased. the materials quantity variance for april is: