Rodrigo operates a dry-cleaning service and charges customers $5 per article of clothing. based on his knowledge of operations, the 1,000th piece of clothing costs him $4.95 to dry clean. if he takes additional business, however, the 1,001st piece will cost $5 for the service. does he take the additional business? a. no, he has hidden costs that far exceed his estimate of $5, so he loses money. b. no, taking on additional business doesn’t earn him any money. c. yes, if he turns away business, his service will be forced to close. d. maybe. if a competitor is accepting that many customers, he must at least equal that amount. e. yes. at a $5 cost, he breaks even and is indifferent. he necessarily turns away business when the cost of the additional unit exceeds the income.

Suppose an economy has only two sectors: goods and services. each year, goods sells 80% of its outputs to services and keeps the rest, while services sells 62% of its output to goods and retains the rest. find equilibrium prices for the annual outputs of the goods and services sectors that make each sector's income match its expenditures.

Ardmore farm and seed has an inventory dilemma. they have been selling a brand of very popular insect spray for the past year. they have never really analyzed the costs incurred from ordering and holding the inventory and currently fave a large stock of the insecticide in the warehouse. they estimate that it costs $25 to place an order, and it costs $0.25 per gallon to hold the spray. the annual requirements total 80,000 gallons for a 365 day year. a. assuming that 10,000 gallons are ordered each time an order is placed, estimate the annual inventory costs. b. calculate the eoq. c. given the eoq calculated in part b., how many orders should be placed and what is the average inventory balance? d. if it takes seven days to receive an order from suppliers, at what inventory level should ardmore place another order?

Which of these is an example of innovation?