Stopher Incorporated makes a single product. The company has a standard cost system in which it applies overhead to this product based on machine-hours. Data for last year appear below: budgeted variable overhead $ 45,220 budgeted production 20,000 units standard machine-hours per unit 1.90 machine-hours actual production 21,000 units actual variable overhead $66,789 actual machine-hours 36,900 machine-hours The variable component of the predetermined overhead rate is closest to:

For example, the upper right cell shows that if expresso advertises and beantown doesn't advertise, expresso will make a profit of $15 million, and beantown will make a profit of $2 million. assume this is a simultaneous game and that expresso and beantown are both profit-maximizing firms. if expresso decides to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if expresso decides not to advertise, it will earn a profit of $ million if beantown advertises and a profit of $ million if beantown does not advertise. if beantown advertises, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . if beantown doesn't advertise, expresso makes a higher profit if it chooses . suppose that both firms start off not advertising. if the firms act independently, what strategies will they end up choosing? expresso will choose to advertise and beantown will choose not to advertise. expresso will choose not to advertise and beantown will choose to advertise. both firms will choose to advertise. both firms will choose not to advertise.