If u. s. businesses and individuals buy more goods from abroad than they sell (more imports than exports), the u. s. is running a foreign trade , which must be financed. this generally means that the u. s. borrows from nations with export . the larger the trade , the higher the tendency to borrow, so u. s. interest rates become highly dependent on interest rate levels abroad. consequently, this interdependency the fed's ability to use monetary policy to control u. s. economic activity.

Emery pharmaceutical uses an unstable chemical compound that must be kept in an environment where both temperature and humidity can be controlled. emery uses 825 pounds per month of the chemical, estimates the holding cost to be 50% of the purchase price (because of spoilage), and estimates order costs to be $48 per order. the cost schedules of two suppliers are as follows: vendor 1 vendor 2 quantity price/lb quantity price/lb 1-499 $17 1-399 $17.10 500-999 $16.75 400-799 $16.85 1000+ $16.50 800-1199 $16.60 1200+ $16.25 (a) what is the economic order quantity for each supplier? (b) what quantity should be ordered and which supplier should be used? (c) the total cost for the most economic order sire is $

Question 6 of 102 pointswhich situation shows a constant rate of change? oa. the number of tickets sold compared with the number of minutesbefore a football gameob. the height of a bird over timeoc. the cost of a bunch of grapes compared with its weightod. the outside temperature compared with the time of day

Happy foods and general grains both produce similar puffed rice breakfast cereals. for both companies, thecost of producing a box of cereal is 45 cents, and it is not possible for either company to lower their productioncosts any further. how can one company achieve a competitive advantage over the other?