a) What it is the opportunity cost of producing an additional bowling ball measured in terms of forgone bicycles in western Leisureland?
Western Leisureland can produce at max 100 bicycles or 400 bowling balls. If you create a graph to illustrate the production possibilities, with bikes on the vertical axis and bowling balls on the horizontal axis, we would see a linear "curve" to production.
The slope would be calculated as 100/400 = 0.25, meaning that we lose 1/4 bicycle for each new bowling ball we want to produce. Therefore the opportunity cost of a single bowling ball is 1/4 of a bicycle.
b) What is the opportunity cost of producing an additional bowling ball measured in terms of forgone bicycles in eastern Leisureland?
Eastern Leisureland can produce at max 400 bicycles or 100 bowling balls. If you create a graph to illustrate the production possibilities, with bikes on the vertical
…show more content…
That means each bowling ball would have $24 in labor cost added to the $25 in material and energy cost. The total cost to produce would be $49. If sold for $50 the profit is $1 per bowling ball.
Therefore Western Leisureland has a comparative advantage when producing bowling balls.
If each country devotes full production to bicycles, Western Leisureland would produce 100 bicycles for their $2400 labor expenditure. That means each bicycle would have $24 in labor cost added to the $25 material and energy cost. Total cost to produce would be $49. If sold for $50 the profit is $1 per bicycle.
In the same day Eastern Leisureland would produce 400 bicycles for their $2400 labor expenditure. That means each bicycle would have $6 in labor cost added to the $25 in material and energy cost. The total cost to produce would be $31. If sold for $50 the profit is $19 per bicycle.
Therefore Eastern Leisureland has a comparative advantage when producing
We look at two points on PPC-(400,700) and (200,775). The increase in corn is accompanied by decrease in poultry by 75 units (=775-700). So opportunity cost of moving from 200 to 400 pounds of corn is 75 pounds of poultry. . d. Can you explain why the answers to parts b. and c. above are not the same?
This week in chapter six of the book, Economics, written by McConnell, Brue, and Flynn, I have learned about price elasticity of demand and supply, cross elasticity, total revenue, and income elasticity of demand. Through this week I believe the most important concepts are elasticity of supply and demand. Elasticity of demand is the sensitivity of a price change of a product. Elasticity of demand can be influenced by substitutability, proportion of income, luxuries versus necessities, and time. Price elasticity of supply is the responsiveness of producers to a price change in a product.
This can be compared to having no option, still with a 10% interest rate, discounted at five years for a present value of $931,382. Therefore, it would be best to use the current land for the catfish project and purchase the $100,000 option to buy the new land for the Gulf Shrimp Processing Division because the present value of purchasing the land with the option is less than with no option at
Journal 3 Chapter three had great information about how money is transferred from savers and borrowers and the different ways to go about it. One specific point I find interesting is the idea of information efficiency. There are three levels of efficiency that financial markets can achieve. First, the weak-form efficiency category states that all past price information is already reflected in the price. This means everyone knows the past prices, so the price has already taken the trend or assumed change already into consideration.
The students plan to sell plush toys bulldogs for $5 each. The students find three companies on-line that sell stuffed mascots. Company A sells 15 bulldogs for $40.95. Company B sells 16 bulldogs for $43.36. Company C charges $33.12
Prepare the annual budget and summarize the budget details for the Park. 2. Inform of the break-even green fees for the golf course along with the break-even admission charges of the pool with the consideration of the consequences of the break-even analysis on the Park and its effect on the economy, politics, and public relations within the town. 3. The marginal impact of shutting down the golf course, the pool, the concert series, and the tours operating in Stratton Township Park.
The pumps that the Wilkerson company produces are the “bread and butter” of this company. These products are produced at a high rate with a high price competition. As stated earlier, due to the severe price cutting by the competitors, the pre- tax margin of the company dropped extremely low to 3% percent and gross margin to 19.5%. Another product that the company produces are valves. The valves have remained steady around its planned gross margin of 35% with actual of 34.9%; these products are sold and shipped in huge bulk.
I am amused by the answers provided here. The most amazing thing is no one have any idea about how economics work. I am not an economics expert, but this is the probably first thing you'll be taught in economics after demand/supply curve. Currency prices works like an index of prosperity in the respective nation.
This makes the total contribution margin per machine hour for Product N $5.00. Based on this information the contribution margin per machine hour, Product M should be produced. Because the company has maximum capacity of 24,000 machine house and can sell all the products it produces, Product M will increase profits by $144,000 (for example $6 x 24,000 hours) where Product N can only increase profits by $120,000 (for example $5 x 24,000
This alternative seems plausible because the utilization of the new land as well as the increase in production would offset the cost of hiring new individuals producing additional revenue. Another alternative Frog’s Leap may consider is promoting the winery to expand to their current market share. Frog’s Leap may benefit by
This was figured out by taking the number of grain produced by each employee, 10 tons, then divided by how many of cars that could be made by the same employee, 4. 10/4 = 2.5. Cost of grain would be the inverted equation, cars per year divided by tons of grain each year, or 4/10 = .4. a) Which country has an absolute advantage of producing cars and grain?
you may find that total amount of costs assigned to Regular model is $765.857,14 and $771.142,86 to Deluxe model. After final computations you can see that the cost of one unit of Regular model is $2,55 and cost of one unit of Deluxe model is $3,87. b) Determine the product costs and profits per
SPORT OBERMEYER, Ltd. EMBA – SEPT 15 – ENG-BL – S2 TEAM A 1. Using the sample data given in Exhibit 10, make a recommendation for how many units of each style Wally Obermeyer should order during the initial phase of production. Assume that all ten styles in the sample problem are made in Hong Kong, and that Obermeyer 's initial production commitment must be at least 10,000 units. (Ignore price differences among styles in your initial analysis.)
Therefore, their anticipated budget will be $120000 million dollars. This in turn will affects the raw materials budget because they need to buy components which is sufficient to manufacture 3 million bikes and obviously a little more to be in safer position. Based on their sales budget, they would be allocating resources and making sure that there is no wastage of resources. In the same way, Sales budget will affect the other budget too. If the level of sales is high, Raw material Requirement will also be high which in turn will require more labor to process and manufacture this product.
Therefore on that basis, all products, including pumps would be generating substantial contribution to overhead and profits. Therefore, given the overhead allocation problems, Wilkerson’s best bet would be to adopt the variable costing method for various reasons, as follows: 1. This cost concept provides a better understanding of the effect of fixed costs on the net profits, due to the fact that total fixed cost for the period is shown on the income statement. 2.