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Answer:
Country X will have higher growth potential than country Y.
Answer: Not necessarily: The debt ratios are not directly comparable, since each company is in a different industry.
Explanation:
We cannot authoritatively state that even though Boeing has such a high debt rate, that it is a riskier company than either Microsoft or PG&E. This is due to the drawback in ratio analysis of bias if compared across different industries.
Ratio analysis best works when comparing companies in the same industry because their situations will be similar. Comparing across industries can be misleading because different industries operate in different ways. In the Airplane manufacturing business for instance, having a high amount of debt due to having the tangible assets to back it up might be a normal thing.
The debt ratios are therefore not directly comparable because each company is in a different industry.
Answer:
a. Toby is not maximizing his utility
b. Toby should reduce his spending on cashew and increase his spending on peanuts.
Explanation:
a. Is Toby maximizing his total utility from the kinds of nuts? If so, explain how you know.
Toby will maximize his utility when we have:
MUp/Pp = MUc/Pc
Where;
MUp/Pp = Marginal utility of peanut divided by price of peanut = 100/10 = 10
MUc/Pc = Marginal utility of cashew divided by price of cash = 200/25 = 8
From the above, Toby is not maximizing his utility. I am able to know this because MUp/Pp > MUc/Pc (i.e. 10 > 8). An Toby will only maximize his utility when MUp/Pp = MUc/Pc.
b. If not, how should he rearrange his spending?
Since MUp/Pp > MUc/Pc (i.e. 10 > 8), Toby should reduce his spending on cashew in order to increase MUc and increase his spending on peanuts reduce MUp until MUp/Pp = MUc/Pc.
