Select the correct answer. A farmer uses one pound of fertilizer to grow crops on his land. He decides to increase the amount of fertilizer added to the soil to three pounds to obtain a greater yield. The size of the garden and the amounts of seeds, water, and sunlight remain the same. The farmer keeps increasing the amount of fertilizer (to four, five, and six pounds, etc.), and continues to gain higher yields. However, since the other factors of production remain constant, the increase in crop yield is lower than the increase in a single factor of production (fertilizer). What is the term for this phenomenon? A. economic order quantity (EOQ) B. law of diminishing returns C. economy of scale D. labor productivity E. production control

Question 3 options: ps.55 four corners is an ibc company that sells delicious navajo tacos in the crossroads food court. part of their success can be attributed to the freshly fried indian bread that is used not only for the tacos, but also for dessert items. as demand grows the fry-bread process is becoming a bottleneck. operations management for the company is looking at two different process options to replace the highly manual process currently being used. option 1 (medium automation) would cost $175 to implement whereas option 2 (high automation) would cost $350. with option 1 the variable cost per fry bread produced would be $0.20. the variable cost for option 2 would be $0.09 per fry bread. at what volume (demand) of fry breads is the cost for the two options the same? (display your answer to two decimal places.)

Of the four types of discharge, firing a. results from an employee's poor performance⎯that is, from his or her failure to fulfill expectations.b. is for-cause dismissal⎯the result of employee theft, gross insubordination, release of proprietary information, and so on.c. usually refers to the temporary unemployment experienced by hourly employees and implies that they are "subject to recall."d. designates the permanent elimination of a job as a result of workforce reduction, plant closing, or departmental consolidation.

If someone is considered to be bearish where do they think the stock market is heading