Next Friday, you plan to sell cakes at a bake sale to raise money for your school. You plan to charge $30 per cake, and you anticipate that you will sell 10 cakes. You can either purchase cakes to sell or bake them yourself. If you purchase the cakes, they will cost $15 each. If you bake your own cakes, your cost depends upon the number of cakes you bake, as shown in the table below. Number of cakes Total cost of baked cakes ($) you bake 0 1 2 3 0 10 36 52 70 90 112 136 162 190 5 7 10
a) How many cakes should you bake? How many cakes should you purchase?
b) Given your answer to part a, how much in total will the 10 cakes cost cake(s) and purchasecake(s) you?
c) How much would it have cost you to bake all 10 cakes?
d) How much would it have cost you to purchase all 10 cakes?

Suppose that xtel currently is selling at $40 per share. you buy 500 shares using $15,000 of your own money, borrowing the remainder of the purchase price from your broker. the rate on the margin loan is 8%. a. what is the percentage increase in the net worth of your brokerage account if the price of xtel immediately changes to (a) $44; (b) $40; (c) $36? (leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required. negative values should be indicated by a minus sign. round your answers to 2 decimal places.) b. if the maintenance margin is 25%, how low can xtel’s price fall before you get a margin call? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) c. how would your answer to requirement 2 would change if you had financed the initial purchase with only $10,000 of your own money? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.) d. what is the rate of return on your margined position (assuming again that you invest $15,000 of your own money) if xtel is selling after one year at (a) $44; (b) $40; (c) $36? (negative values should be indicated by a minus sign. round your answers to 2 decimal places.) e. continue to assume that a year has passed. how low can xtel’s price fall before you get a margin call? (round your answer to 2 decimal places.)

(a) what do you think will happen if the price of non-gm crops continues to rise? why? (b) what will happen if the price of non-gm food drops? why?

Carlos hears juan and rita’s complaints about the new employees with whom they have to work with, as well as their threats to quit the company. if carlos were to reassign juan and rita to new, unique roles and separate them from the ronny and bill, it would signal that carlos has moved into the stage of managing resistance.