Suppose buyers of vodka are required to send $1.00 to the government for every bottle of vodka they buy. Further, suppose this tax causes the effective price received by sellers of vodka to fall by $0.60 per bottle. Which of the following statements is correct?
a. The effective price received by sellers is $0.40 per bottle less than it was before the tax.
b. Sixty percent of the burden of the tax falls on sellers.
c. This tax causes the demand curve for liquor to shift downward by $1.00 at each quantity of liquor.
d. all of them are correct

Solomon chemical company makes three products, b7, k6, and x9, which are joint products from the same materials. in a standard batch of 320,000 pounds of raw materials, the company generates 70,000 pounds of b7, 150,000 pounds of k6, and 100,000 pounds of x9. a standard batch costs $3,840,000 to produce. the sales prices per pound are $10, $14, and $20 for b7, k6, and x9, respectively. (a) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base. (b) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using market value as the allocation base. (c) allocate the joint product cost among the three final products using weight as the allocation base.