Several local golf tournaments are coming up and Tommy needs to purchase golf balls in preparation. He has set a $150 budget and will choose golf balls that will give him as much utility as possible. A local sporting goods store sells a box of golf balls at a retail price of $30 and Tommy purchases 2 boxes. A few buddies tell Tommy about an online store that offers boxes of golf balls at a discounted price of $21, while all other prices remain the same, and Tommy decides to purchase 3 additional boxes of golf balls to keep on hand. Given this information, plot Tommy's demand curve for golf balls.

Wallis company manufactures only one product and uses a standard cost system. the company uses a predetermined plantwide overhead rate that relies on direct labor-hours as the allocation base. all of the company's manufacturing overhead costs are fixed—it does not incur any variable manufacturing overhead costs. the predetermined overhead rate is based on a cost formula that estimated $2,886,000 of fixed manufacturing overhead for an estimated allocation base of 288,600 direct labor-hours. wallis does not maintain any beginning or ending work in process inventory.

Solomon chemical company makes three products, b7, k6, and x9, which are joint products from the same materials. in a standard batch of 320,000 pounds of raw materials, the company generates 70,000 pounds of b7, 150,000 pounds of k6, and 100,000 pounds of x9. a standard batch costs $3,840,000 to produce. the sales prices per pound are $10, $14, and $20 for b7, k6, and x9, respectively. (a) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base. (b) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using market value as the allocation base. (c) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base.

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