Judy‘s cake shop makes fresh cakes to customer orders. after receiving the order by judy’s assistant, which takes 2minutes, judy then takes 8 minutes to mix the ingredients for the cake and loads a cake pan for baking. then the cake isput into the oven for 30 minutes. the oven can hold three cakes at one time. when the cake is taken out of the oven, it iscooled for 1 hour. the assistant then takes 2 minutes to pack the cake for pickup and bills the customer, which takes 3minutes. a. what is the capacity of the process. and what is the bottleneck? b. what is the throughput time for a typical cake? c. if on average five orders are taken per hour, how many cakes are there in the process (on average)?

The federal act which provided over $7 billion to the epa to protect and promote "green" jobs and a healthier environment is the - national environmental policy act. - resource recovery act.- resource conservation and recovery act.- american recovery and reinvestment act. - clean air act.

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.

Suppose portugal has 700 workers and 26,000 units of capital, and france has 18,000 workers and 700 units of capital. technology is identical in both countries. assume that wine is the capital-intensive good and cloth is the labor-intensive good. which of the following statements is correct if the nations start trading with each other? a) wages will increase in portugal. b) rental rates in france will increase. c) wages in france will decrease. d) rental rates in portugal will increase.