Padre works for a trade magazine that publishes lists of power-sizing exponents (PSE) that reflect economies of scale for developing engineering esti- mates of various types of equipment. Padre has been unable to find any published data on the VMIC machine and wants to list its PSE value in his next issue. Given the following data calculate the value that Padre should publish. (Note: The VMIC- 100 can handle twice the volume of a VMIC-50.)

PSE Cost of VMIC-100 today $250,000
Cost of VMIC-50 5 years ago $95,000
VMIC equipment index today = 350
VMIC equipment index 5 years ago 235

Norton manufacturing expects to produce 2,900 units in january and 3,600 units in february. norton budgets $20 per unit for direct materials. indirect materials are insignificant and not considered for budgeting purposes. the balance in the raw materials inventory account (all direct materials) on january 1 is $38,650. norton desires the ending balance in raw materials inventory to be 10% of the next month's direct materials needed for production. desired ending balance for february is $51,100. what is the cost of budgeted purchases of direct materials needed for january? $58,000 $65,200 $26,550 $25,150

What is free trade? a. trade that is not subject to taxes or fees b. trade that governments do not interfere with c. trade with a high level of government regulation d. trade between states in the u. s. b

Why has the free enterprise system been modified to include some government intervention?