Suppose the government is attempting to cut down caffeine consumption by imposing a tax of $1 per cappuccino on consumers. assume that there are no administrative costs from the tax and that consumers or producers that are indifferent will trade. without the excise tax, what are the equilibrium quantity and price? equilibrium quantity: 4 cappuccinos equilibrium price: $ 2 with the excise tax, what are the equilibrium quantity and the price that will be paid to producers? new equilibrium quantity: 2 cappuccinos price paid to producers: $ 3 what is the deadweight loss from the imposition of this excise tax? deadweight loss: $ .5

Caleb construction (cc) incurs supervisor salaries expense in the construction of homes. if cc manufactures 100 homes in a year, fixed supervisor salaries will be $400,000. with the current construction supervisors, cc's productive capacity is 150 homes in a year. however, if cc is contracts to build more than 150 homes per year, it will need to hire additional supervisors, which are hired as full-time rather than temporary employees. cc's productive capacity would then become 200 homes per year, and salaries expense would increase to $470,000. how would cc’s salaries expense be properly classified? fixed variable mixed stepped curvilinear