Suppose your total benefit from eating slices of pizza (value in dollars) is 88x−x^2, where x is the number of slices of pizza. Pizza is sold by the slice and costs $22 per slice, and so the total cost of pizza is 22x. Using optimization in levels, what is the optimal amount of pizza for you to eat?

Brody corp. uses a process costing system in which direct materials are added at the beginning of the process and conversion costs are incurred uniformly throughout the process. beginning inventory for january consisted of 1,050 units that were 65% completed. 10,900 units were started into the process during january. on january 31, the inventory consisted of 500 units that were 50% completed. what would be the equivalent units for direct materials cost using the weighted average method?