Your christmas ski vacation was great, but it unfortunately ran a bit over budget. all is not lost: you just received an offer in the mail to transfer your $15,000 balance from your current credit card, which charges an annual rate of 17.5 percent, to a new credit card charging a rate of 8.9 percent.

a. how much faster could you pay the loan off by making your planned monthly payments of $250 with the new card? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.)

b. what if there was a fee of 2 percent charged on any balances transferred? (do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e. g., 32.16.)

At a student café, there are equal numbers of two types of customers with the following values. the café owner cannot distinguish between the two types of students because many students without early classes arrive early anyway (i.e., she cannot price-discriminate). students with early classes students without early classes coffee 70 60 banana 51 101 the marginal cost of coffee is 10 and the marginal cost of a banana is 40. the café owner is considering three pricing strategies: 1. mixed bundling: price bundle of coffee and a banana for 161, or just a coffee for 70. 2. price separately: offer coffee at 60, price a banana at 101. 3. bundle only: coffee and a banana for 121. do not offer goods separately. assume that if the price of an item or bundle is no more than exactly equal to a student's willingness to pay, then the student will purchase the item or bundle. for simplicity, assume there is just one student with an early class, and one student without an early class. price strategy revenue from pricing strategy cost from pricing strategy profit from pricing strategy 1. mixed bundling $ $ $ 2. price separately $ $ $ 3. bundle only $ $ $ pricing strategy yields the highest profit for the café owner.

Identify whether each of the following statements best illustrates the concept of consumer surplus, producer surplus, or neither. statement consumer surplus producer surplus neither a local store was having a sale on textbooks, so i bought a used textbook for my brother. i sold a watch for $61, even though i was willing to go as low as $55 in order to sell it. even though i was willing to pay up to $116 for a used laptop, i bought a used laptop for only $110.

Danielle puts 8 percent of her paycheck in a 401(k) plan administered by her employer. danielle earns $55,000 per year and is in the 28 percent tax category. what annual tax savings does she get from her contribution? if her employer matches contributions on the first 5% of her salary dollar for dollar and the second 5% 50 cents on the dollar, how much will her employer put into her account this year?