Tim urban, owner/manager of urban's motor court in key west, is considering outsourcing the daily room cleanup for his motel to duffy's maid service. tim rents an average of 50 rooms for each of 365 nights (365 × 50 equals the total rooms rented for the year). tim's cost to clean a room is $ 12.50. the duffy's maid service quote is $ 18.50 per room plus a fixed cost of $ 25 comma 000 for sundry items such as uniforms with the motel's name. tim's annual fixed cost for space, equipment, and supplies is $ 60 comma 000.

Suppose the price of a complement to lcd televisions rises. what effect will this have on the market equilibrium for lcd tvs?

Suppose general motors demands labor according to the labor demand function 푤푤= 40−0. 5퐸퐸, where 푤푤 is the hourly wage and 퐸퐸 is the number of employees. the united auto workers union has a utility function given by 푈푈=푊푊∗퐸퐸. a.in 1984, the united auto workers union started negotiations with general motors by assuming that they were a monopoly union. find the wage and employment demands that the united auto workers union would have demanded before any bargaining began. b.if general motors and the united auto workers union both had excellent bargaining representatives, would this be the final labor contract? if not, then explain in words and graphically where they would end up after the bargaining process.

In the 1970s, kmart used blue light specials to encourage customers to flock to a particular department having a temporary sale. a spinning blue light activated for approximately 30 seconds, and then an in-store announcement informed shoppers of the special savings in the specific department. over time, loyal kmart shoppers learned to flock to the department with the spinning blue light before any announcement of special savings occurred. if kmart was employing classical conditioning techniques, what role did the spinning blue light play?