Suppose that it costs $5 to produce a low-quality electric stapler and $30 to produce a high-quality stapler. consumers cannot distinguish between good staplers and poor staplers when they make their purchases. there are five firms producing staplers. consumers value staplers at their cost of production and are risk neutral. will any of the five firms be able to produce high quality staplers without making losses? suppose each firm produces 100 staplers. if one firm makes high-quality staplers, then each firm that produces low-quality staplers will earn profit of $ nothing and the firm that makes the high-quality staplers will earn $ nothing. (enter your responses as whole numbers and include a minus sign if necessary.)

Vortex company operates a retail store with two departments. information about those departments follows. department a department b sales $ 800,000 $ 450,000 cost of goods sold 497,000 291,000 direct expenses salaries 125,000 88,000 insurance 20,000 10,000 utilities 24,000 14,000 depreciation 21,000 12,000 maintenance 7,000 5,000 the company also incurred the following indirect costs. salaries $36,000 insurance 6,000 depreciation 15,000 office expenses 50,000 indirect costs are allocated as follows: salaries on the basis of sales; insurance and depreciation on the basis of square footage; and office expenses on the basis of number of employees. additional information about the departments follows. department square footage number of employees a 28,000 75 b 12,000 50 required: 1. determine the departmental contribution to overhead and the departmental net income for department a and department b.