Answer:
Persists because economic wants exceed available productive resources.
Explanation:
According to Lionel Robbins, Economics is the science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses.
The problem of scarcity is that our wants are always beyond what we can produce with our resources.
Economics is the solution to this problem of what resources to use, how best to use them, and when to use them.   
Because of this scarcity, all people have to make choices. When making choices, we assess the opportunity cost or the alternative forgone.
The opportunity cost of taking action is what we could have got if we had taken an alternative action.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
The answer is c. $40,700.
Explanation:
The direct costs of the Cosmetics Department are all the costs which are incurred for the operations & revenue generating activities of the Cosmetics Department only; which may be incurred at the Department itself or at other Department(s)/Store(s) which the purposes are for serving the Cosmestic Department.
Thus, these costs include the following cost items:
Cosmetics Department sales commissions--Northridge Store +  Cosmetics Department cost of sales--Northridge Store + Cosmetics Department manager's salary = $5,160 + $31,300 + $4,240 = $40,700.
So, the answer is c. $40,700
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
$57.02 Average price per share in treasury Stock
Explanation:
Treasury Stock in dollars 4,934M 

1,172,513,618 - 1,082,986,591 = 89,527,027 TS in shares
4,934,000,000/89,527,027 = 57.02264565
$57.02 Average price per share in treasury Stock