Speedy dress manufacturing has two workstations, cutting and finishing. the cutting station is limited by the speed of operating the cutting machine. finishing is limited by the speed of the workers. finishing normally waits for work from cutting. each department works an eight-hour day. if cutting begins work two hours earlier than finishing each day, the two departments generally finish their work at about the same time. not only does this eliminate the bottleneck, but also it increases finished units produced each day by 160 units. all units produced can be sold even though the change increases inventory stock by 20% from 400 units. the cost of operating the cutting department two more hours each day is $1,600. the contribution margin of the finished products is $6 each. inventory carrying costs are $0.40 per unit per day.

what is the total production per day if the change is made?
(a) 6400 units
(b) 800 units
(c) 880 units
(d) 1600 units

Suppose general motors demands labor according to the labor demand function 푤푤= 40−0. 5퐸퐸, where 푤푤 is the hourly wage and 퐸퐸 is the number of employees. the united auto workers union has a utility function given by 푈푈=푊푊∗퐸퐸. a. in 1984, the united auto workers union started negotiations with general motors by assuming that they were a monopoly union. find the wage and employment demands that the united auto workers union would have demanded before any bargaining began. b. if general motors and the united auto workers union both had excellent bargaining representatives, would this be the final labor contract? if not, then explain in words and graphically where they would end up after the bargaining process.

In december of 2004, the company you own entered into a 20-year contract with a grain supplier for daily deliveries of grain to its hot dog bun manufacturing facility. the contract called for "10,000 pounds of grain" to be delivered to the facility at the price of $100,000 per day. until february 2017, the supplier provided processed grain which could easily be used in your manufacturing process. however, no longer wanting to absorb the cost of having the grain processed, the supplier began delivering whole grain. the supplier is arguing that the contract does not specify the type of grain that would be supplied and that it has not breached the contract. your company is arguing that the supplier has an onsite processing plant and processed grain was implicit to the terms of the contract. over the remaining term of the contract, reshipping and having the grain processed would cost your company approximately $10,000,000, opposed to a cost of around $1,000,000 to the supplier. after speaking with in-house counsel, it was estimated that litigation would cost the company several million dollars and last for years. weighing the costs of litigation, along with possible ambiguity in the contract, what are three options you could take to resolve the dispute? which would be the best option for your business and why?

Chuck, a single taxpayer, earns $80,750 in taxable income and $30,750 in interest from an investment in city of heflin bonds. (use the u. s. tax rate schedule.) (do not round intermediate calculations. round your answers to 2 decimal places.)