Kim's Sausage House is preparing for Restaurant Week. Many upscale Italian restaurants in NYC have requested that his company supply sausages for their lunch menus. Kim must decide how much Bratwurst (B) and Chorizo (C) to produce to maximize his profit. Each sausage pack weighs 1lb and is made from a mix of pork and beef. Bratwurst contains 1/2 lb of pork (P) and 1/2 lb of beef (F), while Chorizo consists of 1/3 lb of pork and 2/3 lb of beef. The sausage house has 170 lb of pork and 120 lb of beef available. Each type of sausage must be produced in a quantity of at least 50. Pork costs $24 per lb, and beef costs $36 per lb. Each pack of Bratwurst will sell for $48, and each pack of Chorizo will sell for $52. Max 14B + 18C Max 12B + 16C Max 18B+20C Max 48B + 52C - 24P - 36F

In the quaint village of Chromaville, all of the residents (including their mayor) are colorblind. The mayor is decorating all the village's lampposts before their annual year-end holiday parade. She has $180 to spend on ribbon. A yard of green ribbon costs $1.50 (per yard). A yard of red ribbon costs $1.25. However, there is a sale on this week: If you buy two yards of green ribbon at the regular price, you get an additional yard of green ribbon for free! a. If yards of red ribbon are measured along the horizontal axis and yards of green ribbon are measured along the vertical axis, what is the slope of the mayor's budget constraint (during the sale)? b. What is the slope of the mayor's indifference curves (if she cannot tell the difference between red and green ribbon)? C. How many yards of red and green ribbon will the mayor purchase (during the sale)?

You are the manager of a midsized company that assembles personal computers. You purchase most components such as random access memory (RAM) - in a competitive market. Based on your marketing research, consumers earning over $80,000 purchase 1.5 times more RAM than consumers with lower incomes. One morning, you pick up a copy of The Wall Street Journal and read an article indicating that input components for RAM are expected to rise in price, forcing manufacturers to produce RAM at a higher unit cost. Based on this information, what can you expect to happen to the price you pay for random access memory? The price (Click to select) for random access memory. Would your answer change if, in addition to this change in RAM input prices, the article indicated that consumer incomes are expected to fall over the next two years as the economy dips into recession? 0000 Yes - price will now be unchanged. Yes - price will now decrease. Maybe - price may ultimately increase or decrease. No - price…

Netflix customers in Australia could soon be facing steeper monthly charges. The popular streaming service on Monday confirmed that it recently tested higher subscription prices for new customers in Australia. The company—which has nearly 100 million global subscribers and expanded to Australia in 2015—has reportedly tested raising prices for new subscribers by as much as three Australian dollars (AU). Netflix’s test resulted in some Australian customers seeing price increases for the streaming service’s Basic plan (going from AU$8.99 to AU$9.99 per month), while Netflix’s Standard plan increased AU$2 to AU$13.99 and the Premium plan increased AU$3 to AU$17.99 per month, according to The Australian. Netflix confirmed the tests, but emphasized that it has not yet formally announced any permanent price increases. “We continuously test new things at Netflix and these tests typically vary in length of time,” the company said in a statement. “In this case, we are testing slightly…