Brix, Inc., prepares frozen food for fast-food restaurants. It has two workstations, cooking and assembly. The cooking station is limited by the cooking time of the food. Assembly is limited by the speed of the workers. Assembly normally waits on food from cooking. The current production is 2,700 dozen units per month. Because the demand has increased in recent months, management is considering adding another cooking station or else having the cooks in the cooking station start to work earlier. The monthly cost of operating the cooking station one more hour each day is $2,200. The cost of adding another cooking station would add an average of $15 per hour. The current operating hours total eight hours a day, 22 days a month. The contribution margin of the finished products is currently $8 per dozen. Either the extra hour or the new cooking station would increase production by 20 dozen a day. Assuming the company carries no inventory. Required: a. What is the total production per month if the change is made

Who is better at multi-tasking? in business, employees are often asked to perform a complex task when their atten-tion is divided (i. e., multi-tasking). human factors (may 2014) published a study designed to determine whether video game players are better than non–video game play-ers at multi-tasking. each in a sample of 60 college stu-dents was classified as a video game player or a non-player. participants entered a street crossing simulator and were asked to cross a busy street at an unsigned intersec-tion. the simulator was designed to have cars traveling at various high rates of speed in both directions. during the crossing, the students also performed a memory task as a distraction. two variables were measured for each student: (1) a street crossing performance score (measured out of 100 points) and (2) a memory task score (measured out of 20 points). the researchers found no differences in either the street crossing performance or memory task score of video game players and non-gamers. “these results,” say the researchers, “suggest that action video game players [and non-gamers] are equally susceptible to the costs of dividing attention in a complex task”

Janis owns and operates a store in a country experiencing a high rate of inflation. in order to prevent the value of money in her cash register from falling too quickly, janis sends an employee to the bank four times per day to make deposits in a interest-bearing account that protects the store's revenues from the effects of inflation. this is an example of the (menu costs/ unit of account costs/ shoesleather costs) of inflation. pick one

Jodie lives in a developing nation where the local markets are underdeveloped in terms of domestic exposure. her country wants to boost these domestic industries in the face of heavy competition from foreign players in the market. which trade practice should jodie’s country adopt to shield its domestic industries from foreign players? jodie’s country should adopt to shield its domestic industries from foreign players. typing answer