2. inputs and outputs yvette's performance pizza is a small restaurant in detroit that sells gluten-free pizzas. yvette's very tiny kitchen has barely enough room for the four ovens in which her workers bake the pizzas. yvette signed a lease obligating her to pay the rent for the four ovens for the next year. because of this, and because yvette's kitchen cannot fit more than four ovens, yvette cannot change the number of ovens she uses in her production of pizzas in the short run. however, yvette's decision regarding how many workers to use can vary from week to week because her workers tend to be students. each monday, yvette lets them know how many workers she needs for each day of the week. in the short run, these workers arevariable inputs, and the ovens arefixed inputs.

Advertisers are usually very conscious of their audience. choose an issue of a popular magazine such as time, sports illustrated, vanity fair, rolling stone, or the like. from that issue select three advertisements to analyze. try to determine the audience being appealed to in each advertisement and analyze the appeals used to persuade buyers. how might the appeals differ is the ads were designed to persuade a different audience.

Abc electronics wants someone to install a top-of-the-line security system in its two buildings, a system that not only sounds an alarm but also simultaneously notifies authorities and the company president. video surveillance of the premises should also be a capability of the security system. n order to obtain price quotes, what should the company write? a. an unsolicited proposal b. an internal proposal c. an external proposal d. a request for proposals

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?