Company c& a sells 600 bottles of a dietary supplement per week at $100 per bottle. the supplement is ordered from a supplier who charges company c& a $30 per order and $50 per bottle. company c& a’s annual holding cost percentage is 40%. assume company c& a operates 50 weeks in a year. what order quantity minimizes company c& a’s total ordering and holding cost per year? a. 300 b. 212 c. 42 d. 30

In the context of your career choice, your own business skills cannot influence the level of your personal financial success. a. true b. false

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

In the supply-and-demand schedule shown above, at the lowest price of $50, producers supply music players and consumers demand music players.