George, a manager, has just received some bad news from his foreign counterpart about an ongoing negotiation. Disturbed and distracted, he is thinking of ways to control the damage when a subordinate walks into his office and asks for an extended leave due to a family emergency. George refuses to grant leave despite it being an emergency situation. In this scenario, George's disturbed mood is representative of in the communication process between himself and his subordinate.

Suppose that a paving company produces paved parking spaces (q) using a fixed quantity of land (t) and variable quantities of cement (c) and labor (l). the firm is currently paving 1,000 parking spaces. the firm's cost of cement is $3 comma 600.003,600.00 per acre covered (c) and its cost of labor is $35.0035.00/hour (w). for the quantities of c and l that the firm has chosen, mp subscript upper c baseline equals 60mpc=60 and mp subscript upper l baseline equals 7mpl=7. is this firm minimizing its cost of producing parking spaces?