Based on what you have read, what is the opportunity cost of the glass-making company's decision?
A glass-making company has decided it is not generating
enough profit because its production costs are too high.
To reduce these costs, the company wants to replace the
employees who make glass by hand with new machines.
This switch will result in lower quality products, which
must be sold a lower price. However, the company's
profits will increase because its production costs are
lower.
a higher quality item
a greater profit
a loss of equipment
a longer production time

Steele bicycle manufacturing company currently produces the handlebars used in manufacturing its bicycles, which are high-quality racing bikes with limited sales. steele produces and sells only 10,000 bikes each year. due to the low volume of activity, steele is unable to obtain the economies of scale that larger producers achieve. for example, steele could buy the handlebars for $31 each: they cost $34 each to make. the following is a detailed breakdown of current production costs: after seeing these figures, steele's president remarked that it would be foolish for the company to continue to produce the handlebars at $34 each when it can buy them for $31 each. calculate the total relevant cost. do you agree with the president's conclusion?

Acompany determined that the budgeted cost of producing a product is $30 per unit. on june 1, there were 80,000 units on hand, the sales department budgeted sales of 300,000 units in june, and the company desires to have 120,000 units on hand on june 30. the budgeted cost of goods sold for june would be

The management of a supermarket wants to adopt a new promotional policy of giving a free gift to every customer who spends > a certain amount per visit at this supermarket. the expectation of the management is that after this promotional policy is advertised, the expenditures for all customers at this supermarket will be normally distributed with a mean of $95 and a standard deviation of $20. if the management wants to give free gifts to at most 10% of the customers, what should the amount be above which a customer would receive a free gift?