The demand for fax machines in thousands of units has been estimated to be Q = 1,000 – 1.5 P + 5 L, where P is the price of the machines and L is the average cost of a 10-minute midday call from Los Angeles to New York. At a fax machine price of $400 and a phone call cost of $10, the price elasticity of demand for fax machines is:

Which is not an example of a cyclical company? a) airlines b) hotel industry c) medical d) theme parks

Anewspaper boy is trying to perfect his business in order to maximize the money he can save for a new car. daily paper sales are normally distributed, with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 10. he sells papers for $0.50 and pays $0.30 for them. unsold papers are trashed with no salvage value. how many papers should he order each day and what % of the time will he experience a stockout? are there any drawbacks to the order size proposed and how could the boy address such issues?

Arival company manufactures fuel tanks for cars using a different production technique. the total weekly cost (in dollars) of producing x tanks is given by c(x) = 10000 +90x - 0.04x2 find the marginal cost at a production level of 500 fuel tanks per week to approximate the cost of the 501st unit (round to the nearest 2 decimal places, if needed)