Janelle Heinke, the owner of Ha'Peppas!, is considering a new oven in which to bake the firm's signature dish, vegetarian pizza. Oven type A can handle 24 pizzas an hour. The fixed costs associated with oven A are $20,000 and the variable costs are $2.50 per pizza. Oven B is larger and can handle 40 pizzas an hour. The fixed costs associated with oven B are $32,500 and the variable costs are $1.50 per pizza. The pizzas sell for $12.00 each. a) The break-even point in units for oven type A = units (round your response to the nearest whole number).

In preparing for the upcoming holiday season, Fresh Toy Company (FTC) designed a new doll called The Dougie that teaches children how to dance. The fixed cost to produce the doll is $100,000. The variable cost, which includes material, labor, and shipping costs, is $32 per doll. During the holiday selling season, FTC will sell the dolls for $40 each. If FTC overproduces the dolls, the excess dolls will be sold in January through a distributor who has agreed to pay FTC $10 per doll. Demand for new toys during the holiday selling season is extremely uncertain. Forecasts are for expected sales of 60,000 dolls with a standard deviation of 15,000. The normal probability distribution is assumed to be a good description of the demand. FTC has tentatively decided to produce 60,000 units (the same as average demand), but it wants to conduct an analysis regarding this production quantity before finalizing the decision. (a) Determine the equation for computing FTC's profit for given values of the…

Bella bakes delicious cookies. Her total fixed cost is $48 a day, and her average variable cost is $1.20 a bag. Few people know about Bella's Cookies, and she is maximizing her profit by selling 12 bags a day for $5.50 a bag. Bella thinks that if she spends $60 a day on advertising, she can increase her market share and sell 30 bags a day for $5.50 a bag. If Bella advertises, will her average total cost increase or decrease at the quantity produced?

ou are thinking of making your home more energy efficient by replacing some of the light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs and insulating part or all of your exterior walls. Each compact fluorescent light bulb costs $4 and saves you an average of $2 per year in energy costs, and each square foot of wall insulation costs $1 and saves you an average of $0.20 per year in energy costs.+ Your home has 40 light fittings and 1,300 square feet of uninsulated exterior wall. You can spend no more than $1,400 and would like to save as much per year in energy costs as possible. How many compact fluorescent light bulbs and how many square feet of insulation should you purchase? (If an answer does not exist, enter DNE.) compact fluorescent light bulbs