Adrian's Premium Boxing Service subcontracts with a chocolate manufacturer to box premium chocolates for their mail order catalogue business. She rents a small room for $150 a week in the downtown business district that serves as her factory. She can hire workers for $275 a week. Number of Chocolate Marginal Product of Cost of Cost of Total Cost
Workers Produced Labour Factory Workers Of Inputs
Per Week
0 0
1 300 $250 $275 $525
2 630
4 825
5 950 60 $1375
6 10 $1900
What is the marginal product (MP) of the second worker?
a. close her business until she is able to hire more productive workers.
b. commit to meeting the order and then take three weeks to complete the job.
c. hire about 12 new workers and hope she can satisfy the order.
d. not commit to meeting the order until she can move to a larger room and hire more workers to box the chocolates.

The price of trade suppose that portugal and sweden both produce rye and wine. portugal's opportunity cost of producing a bottle of wine is 4 bushels of rye while sweden's opportunity cost of producing a bottle of wine is 10 bushels of rye. by comparing the opportunity cost of producing wine in the two countries, you can tell thatportugal/sweden has a comparative advantage in the production of wine. andportugal/sweden has a comparative advantage in the production of rye. suppose that portugal and sweden consider trading wine and rye with each other. portugal can gain from specialization and trade as long as it receives more rye for each bottle of wine it exports to sweden. similarly, sweden can gain from trade as long as it receives more bottles of wine for each bushel of rye it exports to portugal. based on your answer to the last question, which of the following prices of trade (that is, price of wine in terms of rye) would allow both sweden and portugal to gain from trade? a. 1 bushels of rye per bottle of wineb. 8 bushels of rye per bottle of winec. 9 bushels of rye per bottle of wined. 3 bushels of rye per bottle of wine

If a bond is issued at a premium the effective interest rate is most likely

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