Firm a employs a high degree of operating leverage; firm b takes a more conservative approach. which of the following comparative statements about firms a and b is true?
a. firm b has a lower break-even point than firm a, but firm a's profit grows faster after the breakeven.
b. firm a has a lower break-even point than firm b, but firm a's profit grows faster after the breakeven.
c. firm a has a higher break-even point than firm b, but firm a's profit grows slower after the breakeven.
d. firm b has a lower break-even point than firm a, and profit grows the same rate for both companies after the break-even point

Suppose that the u.s. dollars-mexican pesos exchange rate is fixed by the u.s. and mexican governments. assume also that labor is mobile between the united states and mexico due to low transportation costs.which of the following situations is likely to happen as a result of a simultaneous increase in the demand for u.s. goods and decrease in the demand for mexican goods? (pick mexican unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained u.s. unemployment rate increases, and the country undergoes bad economic times for a sustained mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but it soon drops as unemployed mexicans move to the united states for mexican unemployment rate rises at first, but then it drops as mexican pesos depreciate against u.s. dollars.