Suppose that you build a high-speed, magnetically powered transportation system from New York to Los Angeles, and you are the only firm providing this service. High fixed costs resulting from the enormous quantity of capital used in this system enable decreasing average cost for any conceivable level of demand. Your monopoly is the result of your:

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)

What is the advantage of developing criteria for assessing the effectiveness of business products and processes? a. assessment criteria are answers. b.assessment criteria are inexpensive. c.assessment criteria provide you with a list of relevant things to measure. d.assessment criteria provide you with a list of people to contact to learn more about process mentoring.

crow design, inc. is a web site design and consulting firm. the firm uses a job order costing system in which each client is a different job. crow design assigns direct labor, licensing costs, and travel costs directly to each job. it allocates indirect costs to jobs based on a predetermined overhead allocation rate, computed as a percentage of direct labor costs. direct labor hours (professional) 6,250 hours direct labor costs ($1,800,000 support staff salaries ,000 computer ,000 office ,000 office ,000 in november 2012, crow design served several clients. records for two clients appear here: delicious treats mesilla chocolates direct labor 700 hours 100 hours software licensing $ 4,000 $400 travel costs 8,000 1. compute crow design’s direct labor rate and its predetermined indirect cost allocation rate for 2012. 2. compute the total cost of each job. 3. if simone wants to earn profits equal to 50% of service revenue, how much (what fee) should she charge each of these two clients? 4. why does crow design assign costs to jobs?