Bradley was recently promoted to the production manager of a busy shoe factory. He was chosen because prior to his promotion he had proven himself to be very efficient, and as a department manager he had a logical and practical approach to solving problems. Bradley has a reputation for being decisive and getting things done. Most of the factory's employees like Bradley, but they feel he exercises too much control over them. Bradley has a(n) style. Group of answer choices conceptual behavioral ambiguous directive analytical

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do

The new york company produces high quality chairs. variable manufacturing overhead is applied at a standard rate of $12 per machine hour. each chair requires a standard quantity of six machine hours. production for the month totaled 4,000 units. calculate: the standard cost per unit for variable overhead. select one: a. $130,000 b. $192,000 c. $90,000 d. $100,000

when taxes are levied on transactions, irrespective of the party they are levied on, a. the government can absorb some of the surplus, but also creates a social loss since some of the wealth creating transactions are discouraged b. the government can absorb all the producer surplus from the transactions as revenue c. the government can absorb all of the surplus (producer and consumer) d. the government can absorb all the consumer surplus from the transactions as revenue