Tanek industries manufactures and sells three different models of wet-dry shop vacuum cleaners. although the shop vacs vary in terms of quality and features, all are good sellers. tanek is currently operating at full capacity with limited machine time. sales and production information relevant to each model follows. economystandarddeluxe selling price$30$50$100 variable costs and expenses$14$15$46 machine hours required0.50.81.6 calculate contribution margin per unit. economy $: standard $: deluxe $: ignoring the machine time constraint, which single product should tanek industries produce? what is the contribution margin per unit of limited resource for each product? (round answers to 2 decimal places, e. g.10.50.) contribution margin per limited resources economy$: standard$: deluxe$: if additional machine time could be obtained, the additional time should be used to produce the product.

2. which of the following statements about interest is true? a. interest is a one-time fee that you pay for lending money. b. interest is expressed as a percentage of the amount you are borrowing. c. because interest rates tend to be small numbers, they typically don't have much effect on the price of the goods you're purchasing. d. interest is a penalty that you pay when you don't pay your bills on time.

Suppose that fixed costs for a firm in the automobile industry (start-up costs of factories, capital equipment, and so on) are $5 billion and that variable costs are equal to $17,000 per finished automobile. because more firms increase competition in the market, the market price falls as more firms enter an automobile market, or specifically, , where n represents the number of firms in a market. assume that the initial size of the u. s. and the european automobile markets are 300 million and 533 million people, respectively. a. calculate the equilibrium number of firms in the u. s. and european automobile markets without trade. b. what is the equilibrium price of automobiles in the united states and europe if the automobile industry is closed to foreign trade? c. now suppose that the united states decides on free trade in automobiles with europe. the trade agreement with the europeans adds 533 million consumers to the automobile market, in addition to the 300 million in the united states. how many automobile firms will there be in the united states and europe combined? what will be the new equilibrium price of automobiles? d. why are prices in the united states different in (c) and (b)? are consumers better off with free trade? in what ways?

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