unnybrook Orange Groves processes a variety of fresh juices. The company has the following expenses for July: Depreciation expense on bottling machines $ 63,000 Glass juice bottles $ 54,000 Commissions for salespeople $ 27,000 Salaries of nutrition researchers $ 89,000 Costs of maintaining website used for customer orders $ 4,000 Wages of factory workers $ 75,000 Freshness seals/caps for juice bottles $ 3,000 Reconfiguring the factory layout $102,000 Customer help line $ 2,000 Costs of refrigerated trucks used to deliver juice $ 17,000 What is the total cost for the research and development category of the value chain

Aprimary advantage of organizing economic activity within firms is thea. ability to coordinate highly complex tasks to allow for specialized division of labor. b. low administrative costs because of reduced bureaucracy. c. eradication of the principal-agent problem. d. high-powered incentive to work as salaried employees for an existing firm.

The former chairman of the federal reserve, alan greenspan, used the term "irrational exuberance" in 1996 to describe the high levels of optimism among stock market investors at the time. stock market indexes such as the s& p composite price index were at an all-time high. some commentators believed that the fed should intervene to slow the expansion of the economy. why would central banks want to clamp down when the economy is growing? a. to block the formation of unsustainable speculative asset bubbles. b. to curtail excessive profits in the banking system. c. to prevent inflationary forces from gathering momentum. d. all of the above. e. a and c only.

Acontinental polar air mass foms where