Suppose a cigar manufacturer currently sells 1,500 cigars per week and makes a profit of $3,000 per week. the plant foreman observes, "although the last 500 cigars we produced and sold increased our revenue by $7,500 and our costs by $7,000, we are only making an overall profit of $3,000 per week so i think we need to cut back on production.

had the firm not produced and sold the last 500 cigars, would its profit be higher or lower, and if so by how much?
(a) its profit would be exist300 lower
(b) its profit would be exist 1,000 higher.
(c) its profit would be exist500 higher.
(d) its profit would be exist1, 500 lower

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60