When a perfectly competitive firm finds that its market price is below its minimum average variable cost, it will sell a) the output where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. b) the output whop average total cost equals price. c) any positive output the entrepreneur decides upon because all of it can be sold. d) nothing at all; the firm shuts down.

It is estimated that over 100,000 students will apply to the top 30 m. b.a. programs in the united states this year. a. using the concept of net present value and opportunity cost, when is it rational for an individual to pursue an m. b.a. degree. b. what would you expect to happen to the number of applicants if the starting salaries of managers with m. b.a. degrees remained constant but salaries of managers without such degrees decreased by 20 percent

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1

Utilization will always be lower than efficiency because: a. effective capacity is greater than design capacityb. expected output is less than actual output. c. effective capacity equals design capacity. d. effective capacity is less than design capacity. e. expected output is less than rated capacity.