Answer:
Product Mix
Explanation:
Product Mix is defined as the combination of products produced to increase the market share of the company and ultimately the profits for a company. The Procter and Gamble (P&G) Company produces many different products including deodorants, cookies, shampoo, cake mix, disposable diapers, laundry detergents, bar soaps and many other types of products to increase the market share of the company.
Answer: The correct answer is "Can vary as the result of using a fixed amount of plant and equipment more or less intensively".
Explanation: In the short run, output: Can vary as the result of using a fixed amount of plant and equipment more or less intensively.
In a short-term context, production can only vary as a result of more intensive use of the plant producing more or less intensive use of the plant producing less.
Answer:
1. a. Only major materials and components.
Only the major materials and components are include as direct materials because these are the materials that directly needed for production.
b. Only hourly production workers (aka assembly workers).
The direct labor has to be those people who are directly involved in production which in this case is the assembly workers. Managers and Supervisors are not integral so are not direct labor.
c. Both big items that cannot be traced (e.g., factory rent) and small items that are not worth tracing (e.g., glue, grease).
All other items involved in production should be included as manufacturing overheads including big items and small items that cannot be traced.
2.
Rent for the factory building ⇒ <u>Manufacturing Overhead (OH).</u>
Cost of engines used in production ⇒ <u>Direct materials (DM).</u>
Depreciation on production equipment ⇒ <u>Manufacturing Overhead (OH). </u>
Cost of lubricant used in production. ⇒<u> Manufacturing Overhead (OH). </u>
Production supervisor's salary. ⇒ <u>Manufacturing Overhead (OH). </u>
Assembly workers' wages. ⇒ <u>Direct Labor.</u>
Answer: The correct answer is <u>"c. decrease in demand".</u>
Explanation: Complementary goods are all those products that depend on each other. That is, they are so closely linked that the behavior of one inevitably affects the behavior of the other.
The classic example of complementary goods is that of cars and gasoline. The sale of the former may be affected by an increase in the price of the latter; and, at the same time, the consumption of the second depends on the sale of the first.