Use the following selected information from farris, llc to determine the year 2 and year 1 trend percents for net sales using year 1 as the base.

year 2 year 1
net sales $276,200 $231,400
cost of goods sold $151,900 $129,590
operating expenses $55,240 $53,240
net earnings $27,820 $19,820

options

a. 36.4% for year 2 and 41.1% for year 1.
b. 55.0% for year 2 and 56.0% for year 1.
c. 119.4% for year 2 and 100.0% for year 1.
d. 117.2% for year 2 and 100.0% for year 1.
e. 65.1% for year 2 and 64.6% for year 1.

Arival company manufactures fuel tanks for cars using a different production technique. the total weekly cost (in dollars) of producing x tanks is given by c(x) = 10000 +90x - 0.04x2 find the marginal cost at a production level of 500 fuel tanks per week to approximate the cost of the 501st unit (round to the nearest 2 decimal places, if needed)

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