toyota's pass-through. assume that the export price of a toyota corolla from osaka, japan, is ¥2 comma 200 comma 000. the exchange rate is ¥87.57/$. the forecast rate of inflation in the united states is 2.3% per year and in japan it is 0.0% per year. use this data to answer the following questions on exchange rate pass-through. a. what was the export price for the corolla at the beginning of the year expressed in u. s. dollars? b. assuming purchasing power parity holds, what should be the exchange rate at the end of the year? c. assuming 100% exchange rate pass-through, what will be the dollar price of a corolla at the end of the year? d. assuming 75% exchange rate pass-through, what will be the dollar price of a corolla at the end of the year?

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