The xyz widget industry is comprised of six firms of varying sizes. firm 1 has 35 percent of the market, firm 2 has 25 percent, and the remaining firms have 10 percent each.
(a)-what is the herfindahl-hirschman index for the widget industry?
(b)-based on the u. s. department of justice merger guidelines, do you think the justice department would be likely to block a merger between firms 5 and 6? why, or why not?
(c)- suppose another industry has a herfindahl index of 4000. what can you conclude about the relative competitiveness of these two industries?

Aprice control is: question 1 options: a)a tax on the sale of a good that controls the market price. b)an upper limit on the quantity of some good that can be bought or sold. c)a legal restriction on how high or low a price in a market may go. d)control of the price of a good by the firm that produces it.

Tri fecta, a partnership, had revenues of $369,000 in its first year of operations. the partnership has not collected on $45,000 of its sales and still owes $39,500 on $155,000 of merchandise it purchased. there was no inventory on hand at the end of the year. the partnership paid $27,000 in salaries. the partners invested $48,000 in the business and $23,000 was borrowed on a five-year note. the partnership paid $2,070 in interest that was the amount owed for the year and paid $9,500 for a two-year insurance policy on the first day of business. compute net income for the first year for tri fecta.

Jimmy's delicatessen sells large tins of tom tucker's toffee. the deli uses a periodic review system, checking inventory levels every 88 days, at which time an order is placed for more tins. order lead time is 22 days. daily demand is a constant 1515 tins, so average demand during the reorder period and order lead time (1010 days) is 150150 tins. draw a sawtooth diagram. assume that the beginning inventory level is equal to the restocking level and the desired service level is 99.9%. what is the safety stock level? (hint: look at the formula for calculating restocking level.) what is the average inventory level? the safety stock level is average inventory level is __chart: time (10,20,30), tins (0,150) lines touching both axisthe safety stock level is 0 tinsthe average inventory level is 75 tins