Walberg associates, antique dealers, purchased the contents of an estate for 575,000. terms of the purchase were fobshipping point, and the cost of transporting the goods to walberg associates's warehouse was $2.400. walberg associatesinsured the shipment at a cost of 5300. prior to putting the goods up for sale. they cleaned and refurbished them at a costof $980. determine the cost of the inventory acquired from the estate.

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Luc do purchased stocks for $6,000. he paid $4,000 in cash and borrowed $2,000 from the brokerage firm. he bought 100 shares at $60.00 per share ($6,000 total). the loan has an annual interest rate of 8 percent. six months later, luc do sold the stock for $65 per share. he paid a commission of $120 and repaid the loan. his net profit was how much? pls

Consider the local telephone company, a natural monopoly. the following graph shows the monthly demand curve for phone services and the company’s marginal revenue (mr), marginal cost (mc), and average total cost (atc) curves. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 price (dollars per subscription) quantity (thousands of subscriptions) d mr mc atc 8, 60 suppose that the government has decided not to regulate this industry, and the firm is free to maximize profits, without constraints. complete the first row of the following table. pricing mechanism short run long-run decision quantity price profit (subscriptions) (dollars per subscription) profit maximization marginal-cost pricing average-cost pricing suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to marginal cost. complete the second row of the previous table. suppose that the government forces the monopolist to set the price equal to average total cost. complete the third row of the previous table. under average-cost pricing, the government will raise the price of output whenever a firm’s costs increase, and lower the price whenever a firm’s costs decrease. over time, under the average-cost pricing policy, what will the local telephone company most likely do