Answer:
d. Individual consumers, concerned about their own health, decreased their demand for beef, which lowered the equilibrium price of beef, making it less attractive to produce.
Explanation:
One of the factors that affect change in demand is change in consumer preference. The health concern of beef will affect bring about this change in consumer preference and consequently results in less demand for beef. When there is less demand for beef, the price will go down. And as the price goes down, producers will have less incentive to supply more. This behavior is in consonance with law of supply that says the lower the price, the lower the quantity supplied, all things being equal.
Answer:
Profit margin = $3 per unit
Explanation:
<em>The profit margin earned is the difference between selling price and the manufacturing cost</em>
Manufacturing cost per unit = variable cost + fixed overhead cost per unit
overhead absorption rate = estimated overhead/estimated machine hours
=$220,000/20,000 machine hours
= $11 per hour
Manufacturing cost per unit = 2 + (11 × 2) = $24 per unit
Profit margin = 27 - 24
= $3 per unit
Answer: $7,000
Explanation:
Interest deduction is allowed by the IRS if the loan was taken to improve the home. However, for married couples, only loans below the $750,000 limit can have their interest deducted.
The Sanchezes have paid off $500,000 of the principal of their previous loan so we will assume that was enough to get this new loan under the $750,000 limit.
Allowable interest deduction will therefore be:
= 100,000 * 7%
= $7,000
Answer: B. Shampoo and conditioner, with an elasticity of -3.5.
Explanation:
Complimentary products are those which see their quantity demanded move together because the goods usually compliment each other like tea and sugar.
Their Cross-price elasticity shows this by being a negative figure. This is because when the price of one commodity goes up, the quantity demanded of the other goes down because higher prices lead to lower quantity demanded.
The actual question showed that Conditioner and Shampoo had a cross-price elasticity of -3.5 so this is the correct answer.
There are different types of pricing strategies: penetration pricing (entering the market with a low price), economy pricing (low marketing and low prices), premium pricing (when the price is higher than the competitors), psychological pricing (example $99, instead of $100), demand-based pricing (based on the demand of the customers).
<span>Delta airlines prices its tickets so that it is less expensive to travel between midnight and 5:00
a.m. than during the day, when there is heavy business travel. this illustrates demand-based pricing.</span>
