4) $25 question 3 (1 point) saved clear sailing lifeboats uses 12,000 units of a certain component in production each year. presently, this component is purchased from an outside supplier at $9.50 per unit. for some time now there has been idle capacity in the factory that could be utilized to make this component. the costs associated with manufacturing the component internally rather than buying it from the outside supplier are direct materials $3 per unit direct labor $3 per unit variable overhead $2 per unit fixed overhead (based on production of 8,000 units per month) $2 per unit annual salary of new supervisor $12,000 assuming other things stay the same, at what price per unit from the outside supplier would the company be indifferent (on economic grounds) to buying or making the components?

Compute the cost of not taking the following cash discounts. (use a 360-day year. do not round intermediate calculations. input your final answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers.firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?

By 2020, automobile market analysts expect that the demand for electric autos will increase as buyers become more familiar with the technology. however, the costs of producing electric autos may increase because of higher costs for inputs (e.g., rare earth elements), or they may decrease as the manufacturers learn better assembly methods (i.e., learning by doing). what is the expected impact of these changes on the equilibrium price and quantity for electric autos?