A local restaurant has an advertising budget of $10,000. The restaurant can purchase TV ads from a local station (X) or send mailers to local mailboxes (Y).The price for a TV ad is PX= $1,000. The price to send ads through the mail is PY= $500 per campaign. Suppose the local station is running a special where if an advertiser buys 5 TV ads, the sixth ad is free (limit one free ad). On the graph below, how much is A? A B BL

A consumer has the following utility function (shown in image) where ? is the number of spa days and ? is the number of city breaks consumed. Suppose that the price of a spa day is £200 and the price of a city break is £300. (i) Set up the economic problem and find the numbers of spa days and city breaks that minimise expenditure if 12,800 units of utility are to be obtained.

Suppose your total benefit from eating slices of pizza​ (value in​ dollars) is   8x−x^2​,   where x is the number of slices of pizza. Pizza is sold by the slice and costs ​$2 per​ slice, and so the total cost of pizza is 2x. Using optimization in​ levels, what is the optimal amount of pizza for you to​ eat?

Problem 19-13 There is a road between the suburbs and downtown. The road becomes congested at rush hour. As long as fewer than 100 people use the road at rush hour, the trip takes 30 minutes. When the 101st person enters the road, everyone has to slow down and the trip now takes 31 minutes. People value their time at $6 per hour (i.e., $0.10 per minute) and so a 30 minute trip costs $3. Instructions: Round your answers to two decimal places. a. The private cost of one of the 100 individuals using the road is $  . The total private cost of 100 people using the road is $ . The total social cost of 100 people using the road is $  . b. The total social cost of 101 people using the road is $  . The private cost of using the road for the 101st individual is $ . The external social cost of the 101st person using the road is $  .

Solve parts d,e and f Jen from Thunder Bay consumes housing (H) and food (F). Her studentstipend is $600/month. She has a utility function of U(H, F) = F1/3H2/3.The initial price of food is pF = 1 and the price of housing is pH = 10. (a) Determine how much food and housing she consumes.(b) Suppose the government decides to subsidize her housing by 50%.This has the effect of lowering the price she actually pays for housingto $5. If the price of food is $1 and the price of housing is $5, calculateJen’s utility maximizing bundle of goods.(c) How much does the Government spend on this program (just on Jen)?(d) Calculate her utility level using the utility function above and thequantities consumed.(e) Calculate Jen’s utility maximizing bundle and her resulting utilitylevel if the government chooses to simply give her the money theywould have spent on the program (rather than subsidize housing).How much utility does Jen get?(f) Given the two programs cost the same, which one is better for…

Juanita is deciding whether to buy a skirt that she wants, as well as where to buy it. Three stores carry the same skirt, but it is more convenient for Juanita to get to some stores than others. For example, she can go to her local store, located 15 minutes away from where she works, and pay a marked-up price of $104 for the skirt: Store Travel Time Each Way Price of a Skirt (Minutes) (Dollars per skirt) Local Department Store 15 104 Across Town 30 87 Neighboring City 60 80   Juanita makes $36 an hour at work. She has to take time off work to purchase her skirt, so each hour away from work costs her $36 in lost income. Assume that returning to work takes Juanita the same amount of time as getting to a store and that it takes her 30 minutes to shop. As you answer the following questions, ignore the cost of gasoline and depreciation of her car when traveling.   Complete the following table by computing the opportunity cost of Juanita's time and the total…

Juanita is deciding whether to buy a suit that she wants, as well as where to buy it. Three stores carry the same suit, but it is more convenient for Juanita to get to some stores than others. For example, she can go to her local store, located 15 minutes away from where she works, and pay a marked-up price of $129 for the suit:        Store Travel Time Each Way Price of a Suit (Minutes) (Dollars per suit) Local Department Store 15 129 Across Town 30 86 Neighboring City 60 63   Juanita makes $50 an hour at work. She has to take time off work to purchase her suit, so each hour away from work costs her $50 in lost income. Assume that returning to work takes Juanita the same amount of time as getting to a store and that it takes her 30 minutes to shop. As you answer the following questions, ignore the cost of gasoline and depreciation of her car when traveling. Complete the following table by computing the opportunity cost of Juanita's time and the total…

You must allocate the 70,000 seats in Reliant Stadium (in Houston) among Texan (Houston) and Cowboy (Dallas) fans for an upcoming game between the two footfall teams. You can set different prices for seats in the Dallas and Houston sections of the stadium. Suppose you can obtain $40/ticket from Houston fans irrespective of the number of seats you allocate to Houston fans. You must drop price in order to sell more tickets to Dallas fans, however. Let Q be the number of tickets you allocate to Dallas fans. Assume that the maximum price you can charge for these tickets is given by the following inverse demand function P= 80 500 (a) Express the total revenue (on all 70,000 seats) from ticket sales as a function of Q; (b) Derive the first-order condition of the revenue-maximizing problem (it's a function about Q); (c) What is the optimal number of seats allocated to Dallas fans?

Juanita is deciding whether to buy a skirt that she wants, as well as where to buy it. Three stores carry the same skirt, but it is more convenient for Juanita to get to some stores than others. For example, she can go to her local store, located 15 minutes away from where she works, and pay a marked-up price of $102 for the skirt:        Store Travel Time Each Way Price of a Skirt (Minutes) (Dollars per skirt) Local Department Store 15 102 Across Town 30 85 Neighboring City 60 76   Juanita makes $42 an hour at work. She has to take time off work to purchase her skirt, so each hour away from work costs her $42 in lost income. Assume that returning to work takes Juanita the same amount of time as getting to a store and that it takes her 30 minutes to shop. As you answer the following questions, ignore the cost of gasoline and depreciation of her car when traveling.

You are the County Commissioner of Hazard County. Recently a severe wave of storms swept across Hazard County, spawning several tornadoes and creating a wide path of mayhem. The citizens of Hazard County are demanding that you do something to protect them. You decide to install some early warning tornado sirens. However, there is no money left in the county budget, so you ask each citizen to donate some money to build the system. Many citizens donate money to help build the warning system; however, Ms. Nancy, who is wealthy, decides she is not going to donate. The early warning sirens are an example of a and Ms. Nancy represents a Public goods are in rivalry and in excludability. What approach would be the least effective way to deal with free riders? OA. Appeal to their civic sense of responsibility. OB. Exclude citizens from benefiting from the good or service. OC. Threaten to expose the free riders to their neighbors. OD. Offer citizens a favor or a small gift if they agree not to…