Z-Mart uses the perpetual inventory system and allows customers to use the Z-Mart store credit card in charging purchases. Z-Mart assesses a per-month interest fee for any unpaid balance on its store credit card at each month-end.

Apr. 30 Z-Mart sold merchandise for $1,100 (that had cost $700) and accepted the customer’s Z-Mart store credit card.

May 31 Z-Mart recorded $5 of interest earned from its store credit card as of this month-end.

Prepare journal entries to record the above selected credit card transactions of Z-Mart.

The monthly demand equation for an electric utility company is estimated to be p equals 60 minus left parenthesis 10 superscript negative 5 baseline right parenthesis x, where p is measured in dollars and x is measured in thousands of killowatt-hours. the utility has fixed costs of $3 comma 000 comma 000 per month and variable costs of $32 per 1000 kilowatt-hours of electricity generated, so the cost function is upper c left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 32 x. (a) find the value of x and the corresponding price for 1000 kilowatt-hours that maximize the utility's profit. (b) suppose that the rising fuel costs increase the utility's variable costs from $32 to $38, so its new cost function is upper c 1 left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 3 times 10 superscript 6 baseline plus 38 x. should the utility pass all this increase of $6 per thousand kilowatt-hours on to the consumers?