Use the market's hhi and the ftc's historical guidelines for mergers to answer the following question: suppose the top five firms in a market have market shares of 20%,15%,15%, 5% and 5% respectively. the remaining 40firms in the market each have a market share of 1%.would the ftc be likely to approve a merger between the top two firms in this market? select the correct answer below: a. yes, the ftc would ignore the merger and allow it to go through. b. maybe. the ftc would scrutinize the merger and make a case-by-case decision. c. no, the ftc would probably challenge the merger.

Cool beans is a locally owned coffee shop that competes with two large coffee chains, planeteuro and frothies. alicia, the owner, hired two students to count the number of customers that entered each of the coffee shops to estimate what percent of people who are interested in coffee are visiting each shop. after a week, the students found the following results: 589 visited cool beans, 839 visited planeteuro, and 1,290 visited frothies. the students were surprised that cool beans had 139 visits on monday which represented 59% of all people who visited one of the three coffee shops on mondays. how many people visited one of the three coffee shops during the week?

Define the marginal rate of substitution between two goods (x and y). if a consumer’s preferences are given by u(x,y) = x3/4y1/4, compute the consumer’s marginal rate of substitution as a function of x and y. calculate the mrs if the consumer has chosen to consumer 48 units of x and 16 units of y. show your work. (use the back of the page if necessary.

Wendy made her career planning timeline in 2010. in what year should wendy's timeline start? a. 2013 o b. 2012 oc. 2010 o d. 2011