Tondre Inc. has provided the following data for the month of July: Direct materials $34,000 Direct labor cost $52,000 Manufacturing overhead cost incurred $72,000 Manufacturing overhead cost applied to Work in Process $74,000 In addition, the beginning balance of work in process inventory (WIP) is $30,000 and the ending balance of WIP is $20,000. The beginning balance of Finished goods is $46,000 and the ending balance of finished goods is $33,000. The cost of goods sold that appears on the income statement for July and that has been adjusted for any underapplied or overapplied overhead is closest to:

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?