Page 47 2.4. What is the trade-off between having more now and having more later? What is the usual term for spending on infrastructure, production facilities, or anything else that will increase future production possibilities?

You are the manager of the packaging department in a cookie factory. (obviously, the packaging employees cannot eat the cookies that are transferred in during the period.) after your employees insert cookies into colorful packages (step 1) for display on store shelves, the packages of cookies are then boxed using cardboard cartons (step 2) for shipment to stores. each unit of product is represented by a carton of packaged cookies. the packaging department began the period with 1,000 units of cookies. during the period, 5,000 units of cookies were transferred in from the baking department and 5,500 units of cookies were transferred out to the finished goods department. the number of units of cookies in the ending inventory of the packaging department equals:

Janis owns and operates a store in a country experiencing a high rate of inflation. in order to prevent the value of money in her cash register from falling too quickly, janis sends an employee to the bank four times per day to make deposits in a interest-bearing account that protects the store's revenues from the effects of inflation. this is an example of the (menu costs/ unit of account costs/ shoesleather costs) of inflation. pick one

Some years ago it was estimated that the demand for steel approximately satisfied the equation p=194-25x x, and the total cost of producing x units of steel was upper c left parenthesis x right parenthesis equals 145 plus 40 x. (the quantity x was measured in millions of tons and the price and total cost were measured in millions of dollars.) determine the level of production and the corresponding price that maximize the profits.