Bob Lee, a division manager for JTCL Ltd has been given a mandate to control costs. Bob’s division is called the Murray Division. After taking an Operations Management class he remembered that a good place to start would be to get a current measure of his division's productivity. The Murray Division is comprised of 6 employees who are paid $10 hourly and work 40 hours per week. The division used 75 pounds of material during the week he is studying. Each week JTCL Ltd assigns an overhead charge of $5,000 to the Murray Division. Material costs $10 per pound. The division completed 9000 units of product last week. Suppose that this week all costs and conditions at the Murray Division are exactly the same as last week, with the exception of material usage. If the employees only use 55 pounds of materials this week, producing 9000 units of output under the same conditions, how will this impact on Murray Division’s multifactor productivity?

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

Brenda wants a new car that will be dependable transportation and look good. she wants to satisfy both functional and psychological needs. true or false

Rachel died in 2014 and her executor is finalizing her estate tax return. the executor has determined that rachel’s adjusted gross estate is $10,120,000 and that her estate is entitled to a charitable deduction in the amount of $500,000. using 2014 rates, calculate the estate tax liability for rachel’s estate.