P7.6 Optimal Input Mix. The First National Bank received 3‚000 inquiries following the latest advertisement describing its 30-month IRA accounts in the Boston World‚ a local newspaper. The most recent ad in a similar advertising campaign in Massachusetts Business‚ a regional business magazine‚ generated 1‚000 inquiries. Each newspaper ad costs $500‚ whereas each magazine ad costs $125. A. Assuming that additional ads would generate similar response rates‚ is the bank running an optimal mix of newspaper
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SUPPLY supply curve - in economics‚ graphic representation of the relationship between product priceand quantity of product that a seller is willing and able to supply. Product price is measured on the vertical axis of the graph and quantity of product supplied on the horizontal axis. In most cases‚ the supply curve is drawn as a slope rising upward from left to right‚ since product price and quantity supplied are directly related (i.e.‚ as the price of a commodity increases in the market‚ the
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Price Elasticity: Price Elasticity is used to explain the degree of responsiveness of the demand for a product to a change in its price. Ep=Percentage change in quality demanded/Percentage change in price (Ep=Price Elasticity) Practical applications of Price Elasticity: 1) Helps in fixing the prices of different goods: It helps a producer to fix the price of his product. A higher price is charged if the demand for the product is inelastic and a lower price is charged if the demand for the product
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Major Assignment 1) a) Demand Function: Quantity Demanded (Qd) = a + b* Price (P) Supply Function: Quantity Supplied (Qs) = a + b* Price (P) Where: a = constant b = the change in quantity as a result to the change in price. Demand Function: Quantity Demanded (Qd) = a + b* Price (P) b = (420 – 350) / (20 – 25) = 70 / -5 = -14 Using: P = 25‚ Qd = 350 350 = a – 14 * (25) 350 = a – 350 Therefore a = 700 and the demand function would be: Qd = 700 – 14 * P Supply Function:
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The “Prisoners Dilemma” is a concept in which two criminals are arrested for a crime they committed‚ however‚ the police cannot charge them with the main charge. So they decide to convict them on a lesser charge and only put them in jail for a year each. These two prisoners cannot talk to each other‚ so the police come up with a plan to try to get them to incriminate the other. The plan is to get one of them to testify against the other‚ if so‚ the one who testified against the other gets no time
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Murzakarimova Balzhan Management 343 Q1.6 Which concept—the business profit concept or the economic profit concept—provides the more appropriate basis for evaluating business operations? Why? Businesses i know are there to maximize profit and minimize cost.On this basis‚i think the business profit concept is the most appropriate basis for evaluating business operations because banks‚lenders or creditors will the creditworthiness of such business if loan or any other facility has been advanced
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Examination Paper Semester I: Managerial Economics IIBM Institute of Business Management Semester-1 Examination Paper Managerial Economics Section A: Objective Type (30 marks) • • • This section consists of multiple choices & Short notes type questions. Answer all the questions. Part one carries 1 mark each & Part two carries 5 marks each. MM.100 Part one: Multiple choices: 1. It is a study of economy as a whole a. Macroeconomics b. Microeconomics c. Recession d. Inflation 2. A comprehensive formulation
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Questions) Time – 20 mins Full Marks – 10 (10 x 1) 1. The GM of a set of five numbers is 2. The GM of a set of four numbers is 4. What is the GM of the numbers if both the sets considered together? 2. What do you mean by bi-modal incase of measures of central tendency? 3. If mean and SD are 50 and 10 then what is the value of Coefficient of Variation. 4. What is the empirical relationship between Mean‚ Median and Mode? 5. The mode always found at the highest point of a graph of a data distribution
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Week 7 : Week 7 - Exam #1 Time Remaining: | | 1. What phrase is often used interchangeably with the phrase market capitalization? (Points : 1) Market value Open Interest Trading volume Notional value | 2. Assume that an investor lends 100 shares of Jiffy‚ Inc. common stock to a short seller. The bid-ask prices are $32.00 - $32.50. When the position is closed the bid-ask prices are $32.50 - $33.00. The commission rate is 0.5%. The market interest
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that there are no additional costs of seeing either show. Based on the information presented here‚ what is the opportunity cost of seeing Bruce Springsteen? When you making a decision between two alternative‚ you want to choose the one that returns the highest profit. The opportunity cost of one alternative as the forgone opportunity to earn profit from the other. The opportunity cost is what we give up to pursue it. If I made the decision to go to the Bruce Springsteen concert and not the
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