Ruby Corp currently uses a manufacturing facility costing $520,000 per year; 85% of the facility's capacity is currently being used. A start-up business has proposed a plan that would utilize the other 15% of the facility and but would increase the overall costs of maintaining the space by 12%. If the stand-alone method were used, what amount of cost would be allocated to the start-up business

Which of the following is most likely to lead to a general decrease in wages? a. elastic demand b. public goods c. an economic recovery d. immigration 2b2t

Sarah needs to complete financial aid packets. during which school year would she do this? sophomore freshman senior junior

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