For each of the following scenarios, determine which benefit of international trade applies: lower-priced goods, increased variety of products, or access to scarce resources. a. today most television sets bought in the united stated are made in china; however, this was not the case twenty years ago. b. in large grocery stores in the united states, consumers can buy noodles from asia, soups from france, pickled herring from scandinavia, and beer from germany. c. the united states has become a prime location for producers of semiconductors, whose products are then exported to nations around the world. this choice to produce in the united states is largely due to the access to the high-skilled workforce that is required for this type of production. d. while many developed nations have at least one domestic car manufacturer, consumers in these nations also have access to cars produced in other nations. e. the united states has long been the world's largest exporter of wheat. the access to vast, fertile, and highly productive soil combined with high-technology farming practices have made the united states a very cost-efficient producer of agricultural goods.

Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows. direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow. fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.