Two plants manufacturer cooking oil. plant a has six truck loads ready for shipment. plant b has 12 truckloads ready fro shipment. cooking oil will be delivered to three warehouses. warehouse 1 needs seven truckloads. warehouse 2 needs five truckloads. warehouse 3 needs six truckloads. shipping a truckload of cooking oil from plant a to warehouses 1,2,3 costs $25, $21, and $27, respectively. shipping a truckload of cooking oil from the plant b to warehouses 1,2, and 3 costs $23,$24, and $22 respectively. the cost per truck load is given by cn= c/n^1/3, where c is the cost of the only one truckload used for shipping to a warehouse and n is the number of truckloads shipped from a same plant to the same warehouse. formulate a mathematical model and use gams to detemine hoew many truckloads to ship from each plant to each warehouse to meet the demand of each warehouse at the lowest at the lowest total cost.

Minneapolis federal reserve bank economist edward prescott estimates the elasticity of the u.s. labor supply to be 3. given this elasticity, what would be the impact of funding the social security program with tax increases on the number of hours worked and on the amount of taxes collected to fund social security?

The martinez legal firm (mlf) recently acquired a smaller competitor, miller and associates, which specializes in issues not previously covered by mlf, such as land use and intellectual property cases. given the increase in the firm's size and complexity, it is likely that its internal transaction costs willa. decrease. b. increase. c. become external transaction costs. d. be eliminated.

The gilbert instrument corporation is considering replacing the wood steamer it currently uses to shape guitar sides. the steamer has 6 years of remaining life. if kept,the steamer will have depreciaiton expenses of $650 for five years and $325 for the sixthyear. its current book value is $3,575, and it can be sold on an internet auction site for$4,150 at this time. if the old steamer is not replaced, it can be sold for $800 at the endof its useful life. gilbert is considering purchasing the side steamer 3000, a higher-end steamer, whichcosts $12,000 and has an estimated useful life of 6 years with an estimated salvage value of$1,500. this steamer falls into the macrs 5-year class, so the applicable depreciationrates are 20.00%, 32.00%, 19.20%, 11.52%, 11.52%, and 5.76%. the new steamer is fasterand allows for an output expansion, so sales would rise by $2,000 per year; the newmachine's much greater efficiency would reduce operating expenses by $1,900 per year.to support the greater sales, the new machine would require that inventories increase by$2,900, but accounts payable would simultaneously increase by $700. gilbert's marginalfederal-plus-state tax rate is 40%, and its wacc is 15%.a. should it replace the old steamer? b. npv of replace = $2,083.51