A firm that produces potato chips occupies four hectares of land. The firm produces 10 tons of output per day and sells its output at a price of $240 per ton on the export market. The firm does not engage in factor substitution as the price of land changes. Intra-urban transportation is on trucks, with a unit cost of $12 per ton per mile. The firm’s non-land cost is $560 per day. The firm exports its output via circumferential highway (i. e., beltway around the city). That is, it wants to be near the beltway.
(a) Sketch the firm’s bid-rent curve for land for different distances from the beltway, from a distance zero to five miles.
(b) What is the bid-rent at the beltway? What is the slope of the bid-rent function? Show your work.

(a) what was the opportunity cost of non-gm food for many buyers before 2008? (b) why did they prefer the alternative? (c) what was the opportunity cost in 2008? (d) why did it change?

For each of the following cases determine the ending balance in the inventory account. (hint: first, determine the total cost of inventory available for sale. next, subtract the cost of the inventory sold to arrive at the ending balance.)a. jill’s dress shop had a beginning balance in its inventory account of $40,000. during the accounting period jill’s purchased $75,000 of inventory, returned $5,000 of inventory, and obtained $750 of purchases discounts. jill’s incurred $1,000 of transportation-in cost and $600 of transportation-out cost. salaries of sales personnel amounted to $31,000. administrative expenses amounted to $35,600. cost of goods sold amounted to $82,300.b. ken’s bait shop had a beginning balance in its inventory account of $8,000. during the accounting period ken’s purchased $36,900 of inventory, obtained $1,200 of purchases allowances, and received $360 of purchases discounts. sales discounts amounted to $640. ken’s incurred $900 of transportation-in cost and $260 of transportation-out cost. selling and administrative cost amounted to $12,300. cost of goods sold amounted to $33,900.a& b. cost of goods avaliable for sale? ending inventory?

Direct materials (4.2 x $15) $ 63direct labor ($12 x 17.5) $210manufacturing overhead ($2.40 x 17.5) $42total job cost $ 315dougan, inc. allocates overhead based on a predetermined overhead rate of $2.40 per direct labor hour. employees are paid $12.00 per hour. job 24 requires 4.2 pounds of direct materials at a cost of $15.00 per pound. employees worked a total of 17.5 hours to complete the job. actual manufacturing overhead costs totaled $80,000 for the year for the company. how much is the cost of job 24?