Your friends own a hair salon, buying it from a couple who decided to retire. Eventually your friends buy a shampoo company which they use to supply their salon at a lower cost. This is an example of (5 points) Group of answer choices ending an oligopoly creating an oligopoly vertical consolidation horizontal consolidation

Martinez manufacturing applies overhead based on direct labor hours. the company estimates that their overhead for the year will be $180,000, and that they will use 72,000 direct labor hours. during the year, martinez manufacturing actually used 75,000 direct labor hours and actual overhead costs were $190,000. at the end of the year, manufacturing overhead was: overapplied by $2,500. overapplied by $10,000. underapplied by $2,500. underapplied by $10,000.

Suppose a ceiling fan manufacturer has the total cost function c(x) = 48x + 1485 and the total revenue function r(x) = 75x. (a) what is the equation of the profit function p(x) for this commodity? p(x) = (b) what is the profit on 35 units? p(35) = interpret your result. the total costs are less than the revenue. the total costs are more than the revenue. the total costs are exactly the same as the revenue. (c) how many fans must be sold to avoid losing money? fans

You are an employee of an u.s. firm that produces personal computers in thailand and then exports them to the united states and other countries for sale. the personal computers were originally produced in thailand to take advantage of relatively low labor costs and a skilled workforce. other possible locations considered at that time were malaysia and hong kong. the u.s. government decides to impose punitive 100% ad valorem tariffs on imports of computers from thailand to punish the country for administrative trade barriers that restrict u.s. exports to thailand. how do you think your firm should respond? what does this tell you about the use of targeted trade barriers?