Suppose life expectancy in years (L) is a function of two inputs, health expenditures (H) and nutrition expenditures (N) in hundreds of dollars per year. The production function is Upper L equals cH Superscript 0.40 Baseline Upper N Superscript 0.60L=cH0.40N0.60. Beginning with c = 1, a health input of $400400 per year (Hequals=44) and a nutrition input of $400400 per year (Nequals=44), show that the marginal product of health expenditures and the marginal product of nutrition expenditures are both decreasing. The marginal product of health expenditures when H goes from 44 to 55 is nothing, and the marginal product of health when H goes from 66 to 77 is nothing. (Round your answers to three decimal places.)

Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.