Irving and his wife gertrude decide to take their life savings of $20,000 to buy a small retail shop. they plan to make and sell tie-dyed, university of kentucky t-shirts. they hire a professional tie-dyer for $6.00 an hour who makes 20 t-shirts per hour. the following are needed to produce the shirts: dye, costing $1 per shirt, plain white t-shirts costing $1 each and an industrial washing machine for $1000.
the following represent fixed inputs in the short run for irving and gertrude:
1) professional tie-dyer and washing machine.
2) professional tie-dyer and dye.
3) retail shop and washing machine.
4) retail shop and t-shirts.

Ancho corp. is an automobile company whose core competency lies in manufacturing petrol- and diesel- based cars. the company realizes that more of its potential customers are switching to electric cars. the r& d department of the company acquires competencies in developing electric cars and launches its first hybrid car, which uses both gas and electricity. in this scenario, ancho is primarilya. leveraging new core competencies to improve current market position. b. redeploying existing core competencies to compete in future markets. c. unlearning existing core competencies to create and compete in markets of the future. d. building new core competencies to protect and extend current market position