Answer:
The price of ice cream increases - The demand for caramel topping will decrease
The price of caramel topping decreases - The demand curve for caramel topping will remain the same.
The price of butterscotch topping increases - The demand for caramel topping will increase.
Explanation:
If the price of icecream increases , it would become expensive to make them. So producers would reduce quantity supplied of ice cream. As a result of the reduced supply, there would be less demand for caramel toppings.
Caramel and butterscotch toppings are subsituites. If the price of butterscotch toppings increase, the demand for caramel toppings would increase.
If the price of caramel toppings reduce, the quantity supplied would fall. This would lead to a movement along the demand curve and not a shift of the demand curve.
Answer:
First blank: Consumers
Second blank: GDP
Third blank: CPI
Explanation:
The Consumer Price Index is used to measure the basic basket of services and goods that a normal person often buys in order to have a decent quality of life, the GDP includes all goods and services produced, for example all the office equipment, or farm equipment that was produced by a countries economy, the average customer doesn´t need farm equipment nor office equipment that is why it is not taken into account in the Costumer Price Index.
Answer: No, johnson & johnson should not double its production capacity of their purell hand sanitizer.
Explanation: An increase in demand of hand sanitizers due to the H1N1 flue will shift the demand curve for hand sanitizers to the right. The price of hand sanitizers will increase meaning that greater production levels are profitable. The firms can take advantage of this profitability by increasing manufacturing capacity. However, capacity will be increased for many years and the H1N1 flu is a temporary phenomenon. So, once the H1N1 flu is controlled demand for hand sanitizer is likely to return to previous levels. As a result the increased capacity will then remain idle and unprofitable. So, johnson & johnson should not double its production capacity of their purell hand sanitizer.
Answer:
Total fixed cost $16,000
unit fixed cost for 10,000 units $1.60
Explanation:
the budget was made for 8,000 units
so the 2.00 dollars for fixed cost will be based on a production for 8,000 units
total fixed cost: 8,000 budgeted units x $2 per unit = 16,000
This is the level of fixed cost.
<u>For 10,000 units the total fixed cost should be the same.</u>
and for units it will be total cost / units of production
16,000 / 10,000 = 1.6
On unit-level it will drop by 40 cent to $1.60 from $2.00
