A process has high fixed costs and low variable costs. It is currently capacity-constrained. Will the impact of an efficiency improvement be small or large?

The typical consumer's food basket in the base year 2015 is as follows: 30 chickens at $4 each 10 hams at $5 each 10 steaks at $8 each a chicken feed shortage causes the price of chickens to rise to $5.00 each in the year 2016. hams rise to $7.00 each, and the price of steaks is unchanged. a. calculate the change in the "cost-of-eating" index between 2015 and 2016. year cost of the basket 2015 $ 2016 $ instructions: enter your responses rounded to one decimal place. the official cost-of-eating index has by %. b. suppose that consumers are completely indifferent between two chickens and one ham. for this example, how large is the substitution bias in the official "cost-of-eating" index? the in the cost-of-eating index is %. the of inflation in the cost of eating reflects substitution bias.

Mr. smith recently faced a choice between being (a) an economics profes-sor, which pays $60,000/yr, or (b) a safari leader, which pays $50,000/yr. after careful deliberation, smith took the safari job, but it was a close call. "for a dollar more," he said, "i'd have gone the other way."now smith's brother-in-law approaches him with a business proposition. the terms are as follows: - smith must resign his safari job to work full-time in his brother-in-law's business.- smith must give his brother-in-law an interest-free loan of $100,000, which will be repaid in full if and when smith leaves the business. (smith currently has much more than $100,000 in the the business will pay smith a salary of $70,000/yr. he will receive no other payment from the business. the interest rate is 10 percent per year. apart from salary considerations, smith feels that working in the business would be just as enjoyable as being an economics professor. for simplicity, assume there is no uncertainty regarding either smith's salary in the proposed business or the security of his monetary investment in it. should smith join his brother-in-law and, if so, how small would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it not worthwhile for him to join? if not, how large would smith's salary from the business have to be to make it worthwhile for him to join?

Your debit card is stolen, and you report it to your bank within two business days. how much money can you lose at most? a. $500 b. $25 c. $50 d. $150