Juan valdez, a coffee farmer in colombia, sells his coffee to cafe emporium, a u. s. firm which specializes in gourmet coffee blends. what must be true of this arrangement? when juan and other farmers in colombia sell their coffee beans to foreigners, they gain in the short run, but in the long run will only impoverish their nation as a whole. juan thinks he is better off with this contract, but in reality the wealthy american buyer is taking advantage of juan's naiveté. while this arrangement is good for juan, he would be even better off if the government had negotiated the contract because they could have gotten a better price for juan. all three of these statements must be true. none of these statements must be true.

Based on the influence chart below, what are the decision variable(s) for this model? price and elasticity price and fixed cost price elasticity and fixed cost

Maker-bot corporation has 10,000 shares of 10%, $90 par value, cumulative preferred stock outstanding since its inception. no dividends were declared in the first two years. if the company pays $400,000 of dividends in the third year, how much will common stockholders receive?

Following is a list of various costs incurred in producing replacement automobile parts. with respect to the production and sale of these auto parts, classify each cost as either variable costs, fixed costs, or mixed costs. 1. oil used in manufacturing equipment 2. plastic 3. property taxes, $165,000 per year on factory building and equipment 4. salary of plant manager 5. cost of labor for hourly workers 6. packaging 7. factory cleaning costs, $6,000 per month 8. metal 9. rent on warehouse, $10,000 per month plus $25 per square foot of storage used 10. property insurance premiums, $3,600 per month plus $0.01 for each dollar of property over $1,200,000 11. straight-line depreciation on the production equipment 12. hourly wages of machine operators 13. electricity costs, $0.20 per kilowatt-hour 14. computer chip (purchased from a vendor) 15. pension cost, $1.00 per employee hour on the job