Answer: B. It may help a firm achieve experience curve and location economies
Explanation: Exporting is defined as the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce. Exporting provides a distinct advantage to firms in that it helps them achieve experience curve (which posits that the more experience a business has in the production of product, the lower its costs in producing the product) and location economies (the production of a good or product under the most optimum settings that confers an added advantage in cost of productions over their competitors).
Answer: A. incorrect because part of each payment is to principal and to interest. Therefore, only a portion of the payment goes to interest, so the full amount should not be included when computing the rate of interest paid.
Explanation:
When paying back a loan, there are two components to the periodic interest payment. The first component is the interest payment. This is the payment to compensate the borrower for loaning out the money and is based on the interest rate and the principal left to be repaid.
The second component goes towards repaying the principal of the loan which in this case is $10,000. When computing the periodic interest rate therefore, the entire amount paid per period should not be used as it would inflate the interest rate.
Answer:
Inflation in 2012:


= 10%
Inflation in 2013:


= 9.09%
Inflation in 2014:


= 5%
Real rate of interest = Nominal - inflation
Given that,
Nominal rate = 8%
Therefore,
Real interest rate is as follows:
2012:
= 8% - 10%
= -2%
2013:
= 8% - 9.09%
= -1.09%
2014:
= 8% - 5%
= 3%
$6000 at 8% grows to:
= 1000 × 1.08
= $6,480 in one year
which is invested again to grow to $6,998.4 in two years
which is invested again to grow to $7,558.272 in three years
so,
Total gain:

= 25.9712%
The price level increases in three years by:


= 26%
So,
Total real rate of return:
= Total gain - Percentage increase in prices
= 25.9712 - 26
= -0.0288%
Answer:
Option (B) is correct.
Explanation:
The utility maximization point for a consumer is as follows:

It is given that,
price of Pepsi(x) = $1 per can
price of a hamburger(y) = $2
Marginal utility from Pepsi = 4
Marginal utility from hamburgers = 6
Hence,

4 > 3
Therefore, it can be seen that the consumer's utility is not maximized at this point.
Law of diminishing marginal utility states that as the consumer consumes more and more quantity of goods then as a result the utility obtained from the consumption goes on diminishing.
So, there is a need to increase the quantity of Pepsi consumed and reducing the quantity of hamburgers consumed.