At bargain electronics, it costs $33 per unit ($18 variable and $15 fixed) to make an mp3 player at full capacity that normally sells for $42. a foreign wholesaler offers to buy 4,260 units at $29 each. bargain electronics will incur special shipping costs of $1 per unit. assuming that bargain electronics has excess operating capacity, indicate the net income (loss) bargain electronics would realize by accepting the special order.

reject
order

accept
order

net income
increase (decrease)

revenues

$

$

costs-manufacturing

shipping

net income

$

the special order should be

reject or expect

You invest all the money you earned during your summer sales job (a total of $45,000) into the stock of a company that produces fat and carb-free cheetos. the company stock is expected to earn a 14% annual return; however, 5 years later it is only worth $20,000. turns out there wasn't as much demand for fat and carb-free cheetos as you had hoped. what is the annual rate of return on your investment?

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)

(a) what do you think will happen if the price of non-gm crops continues to rise? why? (b) what will happen if the price of non-gm food drops? why?