Parino Company has three product lines in its retail stores: books, videos, and music. The allocated fixed costs are based on units sold and are unavoidable. Demand of individual products is not affected by changes in other product lines. Results of the fourth quarter are presented below:

Books Music Videos Total
Units sold 1,000 2,000 2,000 5,000
Revenue $ 24,000 $ 48,000 $ 30,000 $ 102,000
Variable departmental costs 15,000 22,000 23,000 60,000
Direct fixed costs 3,000 6,000 4,000 13,000
Allocated fixed costs 4,400 8,800 8,800 22,000
Net income (loss) $ 1,600 $ 11,200 $ (5,800 ) $ 7,000 Instructions:A. Prepare an incremental analysis of the effect of dropping the Video product line. B. Should Parino Eliminate the Videos? Briefly indicate why or why not.

Carrie works at a canned food production factory. the government wanted to give a boost to the salt industry, so it lined up numerous subsidies and tax exemptions for the sector. this lead to a decrease in production costs. this also meant that consumers could access canned foods at a lower price, which lead to an increase in demand for the product. which kind of economic system is carrie’s company dealing with? carrie’s company is dealing with a/an economy.

Ardmore farm and seed has an inventory dilemma. they have been selling a brand of very popular insect spray for the past year. they have never really analyzed the costs incurred from ordering and holding the inventory and currently fave a large stock of the insecticide in the warehouse. they estimate that it costs $25 to place an order, and it costs $0.25 per gallon to hold the spray. the annual requirements total 80,000 gallons for a 365 day year.a. assuming that 10,000 gallons are ordered each time an order is placed, estimate the annual inventory costs.b. calculate the eoq.c. given the eoq calculated in part b., how many orders should be placed and what is the average inventory balance? d. if it takes seven days to receive an order from suppliers, at what inventory level should ardmore place another order?

What is the difference between total utility and marginal utility? a. marginal utility is subject to the law of diminishing marginal utility while total utility is not. b. total utility represents the consumer optimum while marginal utility gives the total utility per dollar spent on the last unit. c. total utility is the total amount of satisfaction derived from consuming a certain amount of a good while marginal utility is the additional satisfaction gained from consuming an additional unit of the good. d. marginal utility represents the consumer optimum while total utility gives the total utility per dollar spent on the last unit.