Master’s Cleaners’ average variable costs consist of $.70 of direct labor, $.30 of direct materials, and $.50 of other variable inputs. If it has fixed costs of $1,000, what level of output

is required at a price of $2 to generate $500 in profits?

a. 1,000

b. 1,500

c. 2,000

d. 2,500

e. 3,000

Aproduction line has three machines a, b, and c, with reliabilities of .96, .86, and .85, respectively. the machines are arranged so that if one breaks down, the others must shut down. engineers are weighing two alternative designs for increasing the line’s reliability. plan 1 involves adding an identical backup line, and plan 2 involves providing a backup for each machine. in either case, three machines (a, b, and c) would be used with reliabilities equal to the original three. a. compute overall system reliability under plan 1. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability b. compute overall system reliability under plan 2. (round your intermediate calculations and final answer to 4 decimal places.) reliability c. which plan will provide the higher reliability? plan2plan1