Meat Packers, Incorporated (MPI) preserves and packages various kinds of meats for transportation to grocery stores. To prepare and transport each meat package to a grocery store, the firm must purchase $40 in raw meat and pay $90 in wages for labor and $80 in fuel costs. In addition, the firm rents a factory for $14 comma 000 per month and makes $3 comma 000 in monthly payments on meat packaging equipment. Suppose the firm prepares and transports 2 comma 000 packages of meat per month. What are the firm's fixed and variable costs of production in a given month? The firm's fixed cost of production is $ nothing, and its variable cost of production is $ nothing. (Enter numeric responses using integers.)

Amanufacturer has paid an engineering firm $200,000 to design a new plant, and it will cost another $2 million to build the plant. in the meantime, however, the manufacturer has learned of a foreign company that offers to build an equivalent plant for $2,100,000. what should the manufacturer do?

David consumes two things: gasoline (g) and bread (b). david's utility function is u(g, b) = 10g^0.25 b^0.75. use the lagrange technique to solve for david's optimal choices of gasoline and bread as a function of the price of gasoline, p_g, the price of bread, p_b, and his income m. with recent decrease in the price of gasoline (maybe due to external shock such as shale gas production) does david increase his consumption of gasoline? for david, how does partial differential g/partial differential p_g depend on his income m? that is, how does david's change in gasoline consumption due to an increase in the price of gasoline depend on his income level? to answer these questions, find the cross-partial derivative, |partial differential^2 g/partial differential m partial differential p_g.

Lead time for one of your fastest-moving products is 20 days. demand during this period averages 90 units per day. a) what would be an appropriate reorder point? ) how does your answer change if demand during lead time doubles? ) how does your answer change if demand during lead time drops in half?