TB MC Qu. 13-61 (Algo) The Cook Corporation has two divisions... The Cook Corporation has two divisions--East and West. The divisions have the following revenues and expenses: East West Sales $ 595,000 $ 445,500 Variable costs 180,000 236,500 Traceable fixed costs 144,000 203,400 Allocated common corporate costs 129,600 187,000 Net operating income (loss) $ 141,400 $ (181,400) The management of Cook is considering the elimination of the West Division. If the West Division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. Total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. Given these data, the elimination of the West Division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss) of:

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.