When the market price is p3, a profit-maximizing firm's total revenue:

a. can be represented by the area p3 × q3.
b. can be represented by the area p3 × q2.
c. can be represented by the area (p3-p2) × q3.
d. is zero.

During a liquidation, a partner's capital account balance drops below zero. what should happen? select one: a. the deficit balance should be removed from the accounting records with only the remaining partners sharing in future gains and losses.b. the partner with a deficit should contribute enough assets to offset the deficit balance if he is solvent.c. the other partners should contribute enough assets to offset the amount of deficit if the partner with a deficit is insolvent.d. both b & c

P8-4b dropping unfavorable division based on the following analysis of last year's operations of groves, inc., a financial vice president of the company believes that the firm's total net income could be increased by $160,000 if its design division were discontinued. (amounts are given in the thousands of dollars.) required provide answers for each of the following independent situations: a. assuming that total fixed costs and expenses would not be affected by discontinuing the design division, prepare an analysis showing why you agree or disagree with the vice president. b. assume that the discontinuance of the design division will enable the company to avoid 30% of the fixed portion of cost of services and 40% of the fixed operating expenses allocated to the design division. calculate the resulting effect on net income. c. assume that in addition to the cost avoidance in requirement (b), the capacity released by discontinuance of the design division can be used to provide 6,000 new services that would have a variable cost per service of $60 and would require additional fixed costs totaling $68,000. at what unit price must the new service be sold if groves is to increase its total net income by $180,000?

The kamp family has twins, rob and rachel. both rob and rachel graduated from college 2 years ago, and each is now earning $50,000 per year. rachel works in the retail industry, where the mean salary for executives with less than 5 years' experience is $35,000 with a standard deviation of $8,000. rob is an engineer. the mean salary for engineers with less than 5 years' experience is $60,000 with a standard deviation of $5,000.