Boyko, Inc. has fixed costs of $ 300 comma 000. Total costs, both fixed and variable, are $ 450 comma 000 when 37 comma 000 units are produced. Calculate the total costs if the volume increases to 78 comma 000 units. (Round any intermediate calculations to the nearest cent, and your final answer to the nearest dollar.) A. $ 750 comma 000 B. $ 150 comma 000 C. $ 450 comma 000 D. $ 615 comma 900

3. saving two consumers, larry and jeff, have utility functions defined over the two periods of their lives: middle age (period zero) and retirement (period 1). they have the same income in period 0 of m dollars and they will not earn income in period 1. the interest rate they face is r. larry’s and jeff’s utility functions are as follow. = 0.5 + 0.5 and = 0.5 + 0.5 for each person is between zero and one and represents each consumer’s temporal discount econ 340: intermediate microeconomics. ben van kammen: purdue university. rate. a. write the budget constraint that applies to both jeff and larry in terms of consumption in each period and ), interest rate, and m. b. what is larry’s and what is jeff’s marginal rate of intertemporal substitution? c. what is the slope of the budget constraint? d. write each consumer’s condition for lifetime utility maximization. e. re-arrange the conditions from part (d) to solve for the ratio, . f. if > which consumer will save more of his middle age income? g. if > 1 1+ , in which period will larry consume more: = 0 or = 1?