Adamo, a florist, operates retail stores in several shopping malls. The average selling price of an arrangement is $30 and the average cost of each sale is $18. A new mall is opening where Adamo wants to locate a store, but the location manager is not sure about the rent method to accept. The mall operator offers the following two options for its retail store rentals: 1. paying a fixed rent of $15,000 a month.
2. paying a base rent of $9,000 plus 10% of revenue received
3. paying a base rent of $4,800 plus 20% of revenue received up to a maximum rent of $25,000.

Required:
a. For each option (1, 2, and 3), compute the breakeven sales for that option and the monthly rent paid at break-even.
b. Show the sales levels at which each option is preferable.

The year is 2278, and the starship enterprise is running low on dilithium crystals, which are used to regulate the matter-antimatter reactions that propel the ship across the universe. without the crystals, space-time travel is not possible. if there is only one known source of dilithium crystals, the necessary conditions for a monopoly are met. part 2 (1 point)see hint if the crystals are government owned or government regulated, and the government wants to create the greatest welfare for society, then it should set the price choose one or more: a. so only the rich can afford space-time travel. b. at the profit-maximizing price. c. at the efficient price. d. using the marginal-cost pricing rule. e. so everyone can afford space-time travel. f. at the monopoly price.