1. Čalculate a breakeven point Selling price per unit $ 17 Fixed expenses Selling & administrative Interest expense $ 130,000 $10,000

Profits for a firm can be calculated using which of the following formulas? (P-ATC) X Q (P-MC) x Q AFC X Q O (ATC-AVC) x Q

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The figure below shows graphs of the fixed cost function, total cost function and the total revenue function for a certain commodity. 20 8000 7000 6000 5000 4000 Dollars ($) 3000 2000 1000 -10 -1000+ 10 20 30 40 Units (a) What is the break-even point? (x,y) e.g. (295,7650) (b) What are the fixed costs? $ TR Percent of capacity= 50 60 TC If the selling price per unit is $50, and the variable cost per unit is $40: FC 70 80 90 100 enter the answer in the form (c) If the maximum production capacity of the commodity is 110, express the break-even units as a percent of capacity? % (round to two decimal places if necessary)

K L Q MPL APL (Q/L) VML (MPL*P) FC VC (L*150) TC 5 0 0 0 0         5 1 50 50 50 50 25 150 175 5 2 125 75 62.5 150 25 300 325 5 3 225 100 75 200 25 450 475 5 4 375 150 93.7 300 25 600 625 5 5 450 75 90 150 25 750 775 5 6 450 0 75 0 25 900 925 5 7 400 -50 57.14 -100 25 1050 1075 5 8 425 -75 53.12 -150 25 1200 1225 5 9 450 -25 50 -50 25 1350 1375 5 10 500 -50 50 -100 25 1500 1525 5 11 525 25 47.7 50 25 1650 1675   Define the Firm’s Variable Costs. Next, what is the VC in the Table above?

Tandem Bikes manufactures exercise bicycles built for two. It sells a cycle for $196 (custom painted in your color choice). The costs associated with Tandem's production are: Fixed costs (per year) Administrative labor $50000 Variable Costs per bike Materials $30 Mfg. Labor Assembly labor Packing material Packing labor Shipping cost ТОTAL Utilities 5000 24 Plant Overhead 65000 $120000 8 3 ТOTAL Note: this is $10000 per month. 10 $77 1. Find the monthly breakeven quantity using the above data. 2. Express monthly breakeven dollar sales (using the quantity calculated in #1). 3. The cost of utilities doubles (annual fixed costs are now $125000 which is $10416.67 per month). What is the new monthly breakeven quantity? 4. What is the Contribution Margin Ratio (CMR), using the costs used in #3? 5. You believe you can sell only 80 bikes a month. Using the costs from #3, what price must be charged per bike to break even selling only 80 bikes per month? 6. Using the original selling price of…

Problem 3-18 (Algo) New car sales for a dealer in Cook County, Illinois, for the past year are shown in the following table, along with monthly indexes (seasonal relatives), which are supplied to the dealer by the regional distributor. Units Units Sold 767 787 817 817 Month Sold Index 0.70 0.80 Month Index 0.90 1.10 1.20 Jan. 643 Jul. Aug. Sept. Feb. 653 Mar. 638 0.60 Apr. May Jun. 738 0.94 Oct. 1.20 743 843 0.89 Nov. 827 1.20 1.00 Dec. 787 1.25 Click here for the Excel Data File b. Deseasonalize car sales. (Round your answers to the nearest whole number.) Month Deseasonalized Month Deseasonalized Jan. Jul. Feb. Aug. Mar. Sep Apr. Oc. May Jun. Nov. Dec.

Distance to city edge (miles) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Housing Developer's Bid Rent ($/acre) $1,000,000 $900,000 $800,000 $700,000 $600,000 $500,000 $400,000 $300,000 $200,000 $100,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Farmer's Bid Rent Curve ($/acre) $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 $600,000 The maximum amount that housing developers and farmers are willing to pay for land is depicted in the table above: 1. How far from the CBD will developers be willing to build houses? 2. If the market price of a harvest increases by $100,00 but farmer costs remain the same, what will happen to the edge of the city over the long run?

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