Marvin started a small restaurant business. At first, he did everything himself, buying the ingredients, preparing and serving the food, creating the menu and setting the prices, and handling the finances of the restaurant. As his business grows, Marvin may have to do all of the following EXCEPT.

A) hire servers.
B) designate someone to manage the restaurant.
C) keep doing everything himself.
D) leave the restaurant to meet with suppliers.
E) hire someone to maintain the accounting, payroll, and tax functions.

Afirm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. the manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $10 each or to produce them in-house. either of two processes could be used for in-house production; process a would have an annual fixed cost of $200,000 and a variable cost of $7 per unit, and process b would have an annual fixed cost of $175,000 and a variable cost of $8 per unit. determine the range of annual volume for which each of the alternatives would be best. (round your first answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference value itself in this answer.)