Sweet Company purchased equipment for $216,240 on October 1, 2017. It is estimated that the equipment will have a useful life of 8 years and a salvage value of $12,240. Estimated production is 40,000 units and estimated working hours are 20,300. During 2017, Sweet uses the equipment for 530 hours and the equipment produces 1,100 units. Compute depreciation expense under each of the following methods. Sweet is on a calendar-year basis ending December 31. (Round rate per hour and rate per unit to 2 decimal places, e. g. 5.35 and final answers to 0 decimal places, e. g. 45,892.)

Suppose a firm faces a fixed price of output, 푝푝= 1200. the firm hires workers from a union at a daily wage, 푤푤, to produce output according to the production function 푞푞= 2퐸퐸12. there are 225 workers in the union. any union worker who does not work for this firm is guaranteed to find nonunion employment at a wage of $96 per day. a.what is the firm’s labor demand function? b.if the firm is allowed to choose 푤푤, but then the union decides how many workers to provide (up to 225) at that wage, what wage will the firm set? how many workers will the union provide? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? c.now suppose that the union sets the wage, but the firm decides how many workers to hire at that wage (up to 225). what wage will the union set to maximize the total income of all 225 workers? how many workers will the firm hire? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? [hint: to maximize total income of union, take the first order condition with respect to w and set equal to 0.]