Answer:
e. Buyers
Explanation:
As per Michael Porter's 5 forces to assess industry attractiveness, following are the five forces:
1. Buyer power
2. Supplier power
3. Threat of substitutes
4. Threat of new entrants
5. Competitive Rivalry
As per the given information, the students represent the buyer power with respect to their negotiation or bargaining power. This means the influence and control buyers exercise over price of products (textbooks) here.
In the given case, the supplier power appears more domineering since buyers, the students have no other option but to buy the updated textbooks beyond a period of time as those books have been suggested by the professor.
Answer: d. Production in the paper mills to decrease
Explanation:
Since they have been mandated to treat the water that is at their disposal, they have to do it. But what happens here is there would be a down time in production as some of the workers who are supposed to be carrying out their duty in the production site would be instructed to first clean the water that they have been instructed, this would lead to production in paper Mills to decrease.
There are different methods of pricing. One method is cost based pricing. The other methods are market based pricing such as competitor pricing, penetration pricing and psychological pricing. The given question is based on cost-based pricing which involves adding a mark-up. In the given the case mark up is $3.5 ($8.75 x 40%). Hence the selling price of the detergent would be $12.25 ($8.75+$3.5)
The federal government spends $668 billion dollars on welfare per year
Answer:
B. $36 billion
Explanation:
Since we were asked to calculate Wages. We can't use the Expenditure method of GDP. Method to be used would be the Income approach. In doing so, the values of export and import would be excluded. Therefore,
Given that
GDP = 65 billion
Profits = 7 billion
Rent = 7 billion
Interest payments = 15 billion
Recall that,
GDP = sum of income earned (profits, wages, rents, interests)
Thus,
Wages = GDP - Profits + rents + interests
= 65 - (15 + 7 + 7)
= 65 - 29
= 36 billion
Hence, wages during 2011 was $36 BILLION.
Note: Parameters used are based on the information in the question. It is important to note that income earned when using income approach could be more than the 4 stated parameters of wages, rent, profits and interests.