e controller of a retail company has just had a​ $50,000 request to implement an ABC system quickly turned down. A senior vice​ president, in rejecting the​ request, noted,​ "Given a​ choice, I will always prefer a​ $50,000 investment in improving things a customer sees or​ experiences, such as our shelves or our store layout. How does a customer benefit by our spending​ $50,000 on a supposedly better accounting​ system?" How should the controller​ respond?

Suppose life expectancy in years (l) is a function of two inputs, health expenditures (h) and nutrition expenditures (n) in hundreds of dollars per year. the production function is upper l equals ch superscript 0.40 baseline upper n superscript 0.60l=ch0.40n0.60. beginning with c = 1, a health input of $400400 per year (hequals=44) and a nutrition input of $400400 per year (nequals=44), show that the marginal product of health expenditures and the marginal product of nutrition expenditures are both decreasing. the marginal product of health expenditures when h goes from 44 to 55 is nothing, and the marginal product of health when h goes from 66 to 77 is nothing. (round your answers to three decimal places.)