An airline transportation consultant offers the CEO of BlueStar, a struggling new commercial airline company, the following advice concerning the airline’s high operating costs in the current quarter:
“You don’t have enough aircraft to operate efficiently. However, at some point in the long run, you
will have the opportunity to add aircraft to your fleet in order to reduce your total costs and still
carry the same passenger load.” Does this advice make any sense? In the long run, how can
BlueStar’s total costs fall by adding more aircraft to its fleet? Must BlueStar experience economies
of scale for the consultant’s advice to be correct?

Scoresby co. uses 6 machine hours and 2 direct labor hours to produce product x. it uses 8 machine hours and 16 direct labor hours to produce product y. scoresby's assembly and finishing departments have factory overhead rates of $240 per machine hour and $160 per direct labor hour, respectively. how much overhead cost will be charged to the two products? a. product x = $1,440; product y = $2,560 b. product x = $1,760; product y = $4,480 c. product x = $3,200; product y = $9,600 d. product x = $800; product y = $800

Mauro products distributes a single product, a woven basket whose selling price is $15 and whose variable expense is $12 per unit. the company’s monthly fixed expense is $4,200. required: 1. solve for the company’s break-even point in unit sales using the equation method. 2. solve for the company’s break-even point in dollar sales using the equation method and the cm ratio. (do not round intermediate calculations. round "cm ratio percent" to nearest whole percent.) 3. solve for the company’s break-even point in unit sales using the formula method. 4. solve for the company’s break-even point in dollar sales using the formula method and the cm ratio. (do not round intermediate calculations. round "cm ratio percent" to nearest whole percent.)

Environmentalists are concerned about emissions of sulfur dioxide into the air. the average number of days per year in which sulfur dioxide levels exceed 150 milligrams per cubic meter in milan, italy, is 29. the number of days per year in which emission limits are exceeded is normally distributed with a standard deviation of 4.0 days. what percentage of the years would exceed 37 days?