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4 years ago

If the marginal benefit of an activity is greater than marginal cost of an activety, then you are better off___

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zloy xaker [14]4 years ago

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As long as the marginal benefits are higher than the marginal costs you are better off continuing the activity.

Consider the example of eating pizza. Each slice of pizza gives you happiness and helps fill you up (marginal benefit), but each slice also has lots of calories and fat (marginal cost). As long as you are still hungry and getting enjoyment from eating, you should keep eating. But once you reach the point where you are too full then you should stop, because the costs now outweigh the benefits.

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Answer:

b. Firm A engaged in predatory pricing.

Explanation:

Since Firm A and B are the only two companies that sell mail-order DVD rental subscriptions.

Firm A decided to price its subscriptions below average variable cost thereby causing Firm B to also sell subscriptions below average variable cost, but they went bankrupt and exited the market. Firm A then raised prices by 40% and is currently earning large, positive economic profits.

Based on this information only, an argument can be made that Firm A engaged in predatory pricing.

Predatory pricing is a marketing or pricing strategy that involves lowering the cost of goods and services for a short-term, in order to lure competing firms to lower their price, thus causing them to go bankrupt and exiting from the market.

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3 years ago

Why does supplier competition make it harder for an entrepreneur to be successful

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3 years ago

To conduct an experiment, a movie theater increased movie ticket prices from $9 to $10 and measured the change in ticket sales.

marusya05 [52]

Answer:

RELATIVELY INELASTIC

more elastic

less

Explanation:

Price elasticity of demand measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded to changes in price of the good.

Price elasticity of demand = percentage change in quantity demanded / percentage change in price

If the absolute value of price elasticity is greater than one, it means demand is elastic. Elastic demand means that quantity demanded is sensitive to price changes.

Demand is inelastic if a small change in price has little or no effect on quantity demanded. The absolute value of elasticity would be less than one

Demand is unit elastic if a small change in price has an equal and proportionate effect on quantity demanded

If demand is relatively inelastic and price increases, there would be little or no change in the quantity demanded and as a result, total revenue would increase

If demand were elastic and prices were increased, quantity demanded would fall more than the increase in price. As a result, total revenue would fall

In the long run, people have more time to search for suitable alternatives. Thus, demand tends to be more elastic in the long run

If the long run, price is increased, the total quantity demanded would fall and revenue would fall

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2 years ago

"a promise to your mother to refrain from going to bed later than 11:00 p.m. on a school night is what type of consideration?"

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Statement: "a promise to your mother to refrain from going to bed later than 11:00 p.m. on a school night

The type of consideration: A benefit to the promisor

Promisor is the person who makes a promise. A person promises to refrain to not got to the bed later than 11:00 pm at school night is for the long term benefit of the person who is making the and not who is asking for the promise.

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3 years ago

You were hired as a consultant to Quigley Company, whose target capital structure is 35% debt, 10% preferred, and 55% common equ

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Answer:

A. 8.15

Explanation:

WACC is the firm's weighted average cost for the capital that is employed from different sources which includes common equity, preferred equity and debt.

In order to calculate WACC, the weighted average cost of each capital is added, so the formula becomes:

WACC = (E x %E) + (D x (1 - Tax) x %D) + (PE x %PE)

E = Common equity

D = Debt

PE = Preferred equity

%E = Common equity / total capital

%D = Debt / total capital

%PE = Preferred equity / total capital

Tax = Tax rate

Interest on debt is a tax deductible expense therefore the interest rate is taken after accounting for tax in order to calculate WACC.

Calculation:

Using the above formula we can calculate WACC

WACC = (11.25% x 55%) + (6.5% x (1-40%) x 35%) + (6% x 10%)

WACC = 0.0815 or 8.15%

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