You would like to lock in the selling price on 60,000 bushels of wheat, which you plan to harvest and deliver to the market in september. the september futures price quote is currently 902΄6. if you write september futures contracts on your wheat, you will be guaranteed a total price of for your crop. each contract is quoted in cents and 1/8 ths of a cent per bushel with a contract size of 5,000 bushels.

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers. firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?

Environmentalists are concerned about emissions of sulfur dioxide into the air. the average number of days per year in which sulfur dioxide levels exceed 150 milligrams per cubic meter in milan, italy, is 29. the number of days per year in which emission limits are exceeded is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 4.0 days. what percentage of the years would exceed 37 days?

Complete electronics inc. sells a point-of-sale computer with a two-year service contract. complete collects $ 2 comma 500 cash for the selling price of the computer and $ 576 for the two-year service contract. how is revenue recognized?