Johanna Pye is a hair stylist at Mamon Salon. The salon's policy states that stylists receive 40 percent of the revenue they generate as their compensation. Johanna grew tired of sharing her income with the salon and decided she wanted to make more money. She continued seeing her existing clients at the salon, but when new clients called for an appointment, Johanna lied and told them the salon was completely booked for the next few months. She then offered to come to their homes and cut their hair for 10 percent less than what the clients would be charged at the salon. She did not report the house call appointments to the salon, and was therefore able to keep all the income she generated from these side clients. This is an example of what type of scheme

Torino company has 1,300 shares of $50 par value, 6.0% cumulative and nonparticipating preferred stock and 13,000 shares of $10 par value common stock outstanding. the company paid total cash dividends of $3,500 in its first year of operation. the cash dividend that must be paid to preferred stockholders in the second year before any dividend is paid to common stockholders is:

Suppose a firm faces a fixed price of output, 푝푝= 1200. the firm hires workers from a union at a daily wage, 푤푤, to produce output according to the production function 푞푞= 2퐸퐸12. there are 225 workers in the union. any union worker who does not work for this firm is guaranteed to find nonunion employment at a wage of $96 per day. a.what is the firm’s labor demand function? b.if the firm is allowed to choose 푤푤, but then the union decides how many workers to provide (up to 225) at that wage, what wage will the firm set? how many workers will the union provide? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? c.now suppose that the union sets the wage, but the firm decides how many workers to hire at that wage (up to 225). what wage will the union set to maximize the total income of all 225 workers? how many workers will the firm hire? what is the firm’s output and profit? what is the total income of the 225 union workers? [hint: to maximize total income of union, take the first order condition with respect to w and set equal to 0.]

You decided to charge $100 for your new computer game, but people are not buying it. what could you do to encourage people to buy your game?