A firm is employing inputs such that the marginal product of labor is 25 and the marginal product of capital is 40. The price of labor is $5 and the price of capital is $8. If the firm wants to minimize costs, then it should: Use less labor and more capital Use more labor and less capital Use less labor and less capital Make no change in resource use

Acme published a story about paul and as a result paul sued acme for damage to his reputation, emotional distress, and punitive damages. paul won an award of $20,000 for damages, $5,500 for emotional distress, and $50,000 for punitive damages. what amount must paul include in his gross income

Job a3b was ordered by a customer on september 25. during the month of september, jaycee corporation requisitioned $2,400 of direct materials and used $3,900 of direct labor. the job was not finished by the end of the month, but needed an additional $2,900 of direct materials in october and additional direct labor of $6,400 to finish the job. the company applies overhead at the end of each month at a rate of 100% of the direct labor cost. what is the amount of job costs added to work in process inventory during october?

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.