02. GeCo begins 20X4 with merchandise costing $69,000. 20X4 sales are $233,000, purchases are $198,000, and ending inventory is $81,000.
GeCo's 20X4 cost of goods sold is...
a. $245,000 b. $221,000 c. $210,000 d. $186,000
3. On December 3, HuCo purchases merchandise for $47,000 on account
F. O.B. destination. Freight charges are $800. On December 26, HUC
pays the vendor $14,000. On HuCo's December 31 balance sheet the
accounts payable balance will be...
a. $33,800
b. $47,000
c. $47,800
d. $33,000
4. RiCo uses the perpetual method for inventory and records purchases a
In 20X4, it has total merchandise purchases of $324,000. It retu

3. saving two consumers, larry and jeff, have utility functions defined over the two periods of their lives: middle age (period zero) and retirement (period 1). they have the same income in period 0 of m dollars and they will not earn income in period 1. the interest rate they face is r. larry’s and jeff’s utility functions are as follow. = 0.5 + 0.5 and = 0.5 + 0.5 for each person is between zero and one and represents each consumer’s temporal discount econ 340: intermediate microeconomics. ben van kammen: purdue university. rate. a. write the budget constraint that applies to both jeff and larry in terms of consumption in each period and ), interest rate, and m. b. what is larry’s and what is jeff’s marginal rate of intertemporal substitution? c. what is the slope of the budget constraint? d. write each consumer’s condition for lifetime utility maximization. e. re-arrange the conditions from part (d) to solve for the ratio, . f. if > which consumer will save more of his middle age income? g. if > 1 1+ , in which period will larry consume more: = 0 or = 1?