You are trying to decide, whether to lease or to buy equipment. The lease lasts for 5 years, with $2,000 annual payments due at the end of each year. The company can borrow at 10% and has a 30% marginal tax rate. The NPV of the cost of buying the equipment is $5,100. What is the company's net advantage of leasing this equipment (in $), approximately? O a. 640 O b. 340 O c. -340 O d. 460 O e. -640 O f. -460

1. Assume you must choose between two mutually exclusive alternatives: A or B. The explicit benefit you receive from alternative A, bª, is equal to $100. And, the explicit cost of choosing alternative A, c*, is $80. Also, the explicit benefit to choosing alternative B, b", is $120. What is the accounting return for choosing alternative A, r^? Given r and b", what is the explicit cost that you are willingness to pay (WTP) for alternative B, WTP"? Please include the formulas from class in your answer. How would WTPB change ifr^ increased by $5? Explain. your Using the original set of values for explicit costs and benefits, what would be your economic return to choosing alternative How does this relate to the concept of consumer surplus? if the price that you were charged was $95? Please interpret.

2. For each of the following costs, identify the cost graph that best illustrates its cost behavior as the number of units produced increases. Not all graph have to be used and a graph can be used more than once. Graph 1 Graph 2 Graph 3 ° Activity Base O Activity Base o Activity Base Graph 4 Graph 5 O Activity Base O Activity Base FIGURE 20.2 Rent of warehouse of $10,000 per month Per-unit straight line depreciation costs a. b. с. Per-unit cost of direct materials d. Electricity costs of $5,000 per month plus $.0004 per kilawatt-hour е. Total direct labor cost

Kindly assist on question 1 and 2 1The difference between zero accounting profit and  zero economic profit is that. a) an economic profit of zero indicates a fair return because it includes the opportunity cost of a firms capital. b) an economic profit zero indicates unacceptable rate of return because it does not include the opportunity cost of a firms capital. c) an economic profit of zero indicates more than a fair return because it includes opportunity cost and explicit cost. d) an accounting profit of zero indicates a fair rate of return because it includes the opportunity cost of a firms capital. 2.If a corporation is sued and losses the lawsuit, it's liability to pay. a) is imposed on all stockholders, personally b) is imposed only on the corporate CEO and the board of directors. C) its limited to the assets held in the corporations name. d) is imposed on the bondholders of the corporation

(Table: Customer Valuations for Lawn Services I) The table shows customer valuations for different lawn services. Consumer Valuations per Season Lawn Cutting Fertilizing $ 800 $400 1,000 250 Consumer Ben Ethan The marginal cost of lawn cutting is $400, and the marginal cost of fertilizing is $200. Suppose the lawn service prices its services separately. In this case, the company should charge $ for fertilizing. O 250 800 600 Bundle $1,200 1,250 400

2. Superior Metals Company has seen its sales volume decline over the last few years as the result of fising foreign imports. In order to increase sales and hopefully, profits), the firm is considering a price reduction on uranium-a metal that it produces and sells. The firm currently sells 60.000 pounds of uranium a year at an average price of $10 per pound. Fixed costs of producing uranium are $250,000. Current variable costs per pound are $5. The firm has determined that the variable cost per pound could be reduced by $.50 if production volume could be increased by 10 percent (fixed costs would remain constant). The firm' marketing department has estimated the arc elasticity of demand for uranium to be - 1.5. (a) How much would Superior Metals have to reduce the price of uranium in order to achieve a 10 percent increase in the quantity sold? (b) What would the firm's (i) total revenue, (ii) total cost, and (ii) total profit be before and after the price cut? 8 - 60000

Catriona's botique sold 100 pieces of bookmarks. Her total production cost is 5 pesos including an implicit cost of 2 pesos. Her opportunity cost of capital is 500 pesos. If the slling price of a bookmark is 10 pesos. How much is the economic profit? * O P500 O P300 O P700 O (P200) O Answer not given