Asarta inc. is polluting into a nearby fishing stream; doing so benefits them $40,000 a year. the fishermen are unhappy as their trout are dying off. typically, the fishermen can catch trout and sell it to a local market where they can earn about $8,000 a year. currently, asarta inc. has the rights to use the stream as they see fit. which of the following is an optimal solution according to the coase theorem?

a. asarta inc. could pay the fishermen $8,500 and keep polluting
b. asarta inc. could pay the fishermen $7,000 and keep polluting
c. there is no optimal solution given the current property rights
d. the fishermen cout the fishermen could pay asarta inc. $4,000 to stop them

Electronics assembly inc. is a contract manufacturer that assembles consumer electronics for a number of companies. currently, the operations manager is assessing the capacity requirements as input into a bid for a job to assemble cell phones for a major global company. the company would assemble three models of cell phones in the same assembly cell. setup time between the phones is negligible. electronics assembly inc. operates two 8-hour shifts for 275 days per year. cell phone demand forecast (phones/year) processing time (minutes/phone) mars 47,000 19.8 saturn 35,000 20.7 neptune 7,500 16.2 a. calculate total capacity required by line. b. determine the total operating time available. c. calculate the total number of assembly cells. (round up your answer to the next whole number.)

What would happen to the equilibrium price and quantity of lattés if the cost to produce steamed milk

At cooly cola, we are testing the appeal of our new diet one cola. in a taste test of 250 randomly chosen cola drinkers, 200 consumers preferred diet one cola to the leading brand. assuming that the sample were large enough, the large-sample 95% confidence interval for the population proportion of cola drinkers that prefer diet one cola would be: