You are the owner of a small landscaping company. Usually, business is always good in the spring and summer, leaving enough resources to ride out the slow winter. But the revenue from last summer was unusually slow due to a severe drought, leading to less business than usual in the fall, and causing a cash shortage this winter. You need a short-term injection of cash so that you can maintain equipment, pay employees, and keep your company going for a few months until spring arrives. Which of the options for short-term financing discussed in the text would you choose and why?

David consumes two things: gasoline (g) and bread (b). david's utility function is u(g, b) = 10g^0.25 b^0.75. use the lagrange technique to solve for david's optimal choices of gasoline and bread as a function of the price of gasoline, p_g, the price of bread, p_b, and his income m. with recent decrease in the price of gasoline (maybe due to external shock such as shale gas production) does david increase his consumption of gasoline? for david, how does partial differential g/partial differential p_g depend on his income m? that is, how does david's change in gasoline consumption due to an increase in the price of gasoline depend on his income level? to answer these questions, find the cross-partial derivative, |partial differential^2 g/partial differential m partial differential p_g.