4. When a resource or capability is valuable, rare, hard to imitate, and non-substitutable firms may gain:

Leon and sara are arguing over when the best time is to degrease soup. leon says that it's easiest to degrease soup when it's boiling. sara says it's easiest to degrease soup when it's cold. who is correct? a. neither leon nor sara is correct. b. leon is correct. c. both leon and sara are correct. d. sara is correct. student b   incorrect which following answer correct?

An outside supplier has offered to sell talbot similar wheels for $1.25 per wheel. if the wheels are purchased from the outside supplier, $15,000 of annual fixed overhead could be avoided and the facilities now being used could be rented to another company for $45,000 per year. direct labor is a variable cost. if talbot chooses to buy the wheel from the outside supplier, then annual net operating income would:

Which of the following statements best reflects a price-taking firm? price-taking firms maximize profits by charging a price above marginal cost. the firm can sell only a limited amount of output at the market price before the market price will fall. if the firm were to charge more than the going price, it would sell none of its goods. the firm has an incentive to charge less than the market price to earn higher revenue.