National Bank currently has $500 million in transaction deposits on its balance sheet. The current reserve requirement is 10 percent, but the Federal Reserve is decreasing this requirement to 8 percent. a. Show the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve and National Bank if National Bank converts all excess reserves to loans, but borrowers return only 30 percent of these funds to National Bank as transaction deposits. What will be:

1. The new amount of transaction deposits
2. The new amount of reserve deposits at the fed
3. The new amount of loans

b. Show the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve and National Bank if National Bank converts 70 percent of its excess reserves to loans and borrowers return 60 percent of these funds to National Bank as transaction deposits.

1. The new amount of transaction deposits
2. The new amount of reserve deposits at the fed
3. The new amount of loans

Hank itzek manufactures and sells homemade wine, and he wants to develop a standard cost per gallon. the following are required for production of a 70-gallon batch. 2,700 ounces of grape concentrate at $0.04 per ounce 77 pounds of granulated sugar at $0.43 per pound 133 lemons at $0.79 each 350 yeast tablets at $0.24 each 350 nutrient tablets at $0.14 each 2,500 ounces of water at $0.001 per ounce hank estimates that 4% of the grape concentrate is wasted, 9% of the sugar is lost, and 32% of the lemons cannot be used. compute the standard cost of the ingredients for one gallon of wine. (round intermediate calculations and final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g.

In march 2012, the state of california started requiring that all packaging for food and drink with the additive 4-methylimidazole (4-mi) be clearly labeled with a cancer warning. because of this, both pepsi and coke changed their formula to eliminate 4-mi as an ingredient. if pepsi and coke did not change their formula, holding all else constant, what would have happened to the demand for these goods, assuming pepsi and coke were in a competitive market? a. the demand curve for both pepsi and coke would have shifted to the right, causing the price of both products to decrease and the profits for the companies to fall. b. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have remained unchanged, but the price of both products would have decreased and the profits for the companies would have fallen. c. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have decreased, but the prices and profits would not have changed. d. the demand curve for only one of them would change because pepsi and coke are substitutes. e. the demand curve for pepsi and coke would have shifted to the left, causing the price of both products to decrease and the profits for both companies to fall.

Tony is a wheat farmer, but he also spends part of his day teaching guitar lessons, due to the popularity of his local country western band, farmer tony has more students requesting lessons than he has time for if he is to also maintain his farming business. farmer tony charges $25 an hour for his guitar lessons. one spring day, he spends 10 hours in his fields planting $130 with of seeds on his farm. he expects that the seeds he planted will yield $300 worth of wheat a. 130 b. 260 c. 170 d. $-80