Hilary owns a fruit smoothie shop at the local mall. Each smoothie requires 1/2 pound of mixed berries, which are expected to cost $6 per pound during the summer months. Shop employees are paid $6 per hour. Variable overhead consists of utilities and supplies. The variable overhead rate is $0.11 per minute of DL time. Each smoothie should require 3 minutes of DL time.
1. What is the standard cost of direct materials for each smoothie?
2. What is the standard cost of direct labor for each smoothie?3. What is the standard cost of variable overhead for each smoothie?

(a) what do you think will happen if the price of non-gm crops continues to rise? why? (b) what will happen if the price of non-gm food drops? why?

Asmall town wants to build some new recreational facilities. the proposed facilities include a swimming pool, recreation center, basketball court and baseball field. the town council wants to provide the facilities which will be used by the most people, but they face budget and land limitations. the town has $400,000 and 14 acres of land. the pool requires locker facilities which would be in the recreation center, so if the swimming pool is built the recreation center must also be built. also, the council has only enough flat land to build the basketball court or the baseball field. the daily usage and cost of the facilities (in $1,000) are shown below. which facilities should they build? facilityusagecost ($1,000)landswimming pool4001002recreation center5002003basketball court3001504baseball field2001005

The purpose of the transportation approach for location analysis is to minimize which of the following? a. total costsb. total fixed costsc. the number of shipmentsd. total shipping costse. total variable costs