You are an economic advisor to the president. You observe a decrease in gross investment. Assume the economy was operating at the full-employment level of real GDP prior to the decrease in gross investment. Describe the state of the economy and advise the president on the appropriate policy action by completing the following sentences. a. The decrease in gross investment will lead to in aggregate demand. As a result, real GDP will . b. The problem that this event will cause is . c. Appropriate policy actions would include taxes and/or government purchases. d. These actions will smooth out the business cycle by actual real GDP back toward full-employment GDP.

Apharmaceutical packaging company (ppc) has decided to reorganize its processes into cells. the company has four different production operations, each requiring a unique piece of equipment. the names and functions of the four pieces of equipment are sort, count, place, and package. the company packages five different families of products (a, b, c, d, and e). the tables below indicate the demand (total units/day by product family), required operations, and operation cycle times for each product family. assume that any individual piece of equipment is available to operate 16 hours/day, but 2 hours (in total) are lost each day on each piece of equipment due to breaks and meetings when operators are not available to operate the equipment. how many minutes/day are available for production

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The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)