The only grocery store in a town has recently seen its profits decrease. An executive at the grocery store has been challenged to find a way to reverse this trend without losing significant sales. What is a possible technique the company can use to increase its producer surplus?
A company owns an empty office building and is deciding how to use it next year. It would cost $100,000 to staff the office and $15,000 for equipment. The revenues would be $160,000. Meanwhile, it could rent the office to another company for $75,000 in revenues. In both cases, the company must pay $5,000 for the building's electricity. If the company is seeking to maximize its economic profit, which course should it pursue and what is the outcome?
Many people argue that giving patents for medicines is unfair, because it prevents many people from accessing the products they need to live a healthy life. Why do governments allow patents for medicines?
A 95% confidence interval for a sample of data is as follows: Sample Mean: 90.5 Upper Bound: 98 Lower Bound: 83
Given this data, the tester is 95% confident that:
A manager at an internet retailer wants to determine whether a recent change in the company's supply chain strategy has affected the amount of time it takes for an order to reach a customer. The historical average amount of time from placing the order to final delivery is 5.2 days. A random sample of 60 orders taken after the implementation of the new strategy indicates an average delivery time of 4.5 days with a standard deviation of 1.4 days. The manager wishes to perform a hypothesis test at a 95% confidence level. Which option represents the correct calculation for the range of likely sample means? Please note that the function for confidence intervals in Excel is =CONFIDENCE.NORM(alpha, standard_dev, size).
