The challenge solution says that a gas tax is roughly equally shared by consumers and firms in the long run. what can you say about the elasticities of supply and demand ? if the consumer incidence of a gas tax is roughly equal to the burden of the tax for firms in the long run, then a. the elasticities of supply and demand are roughly equally elastic. b. the elasticity of demand is almost zero and the elasticity of supply is almost infinite. c. the elasticity of demand is almost zero and the elasticity of supply is almost unitary. d. the elasticities of supply and demand are both almost zero. e. the elasticities of supply and demand are both positive.

Sodas in a can are supposed to contain an average of 12 ounces. this particular brand has a standard deviation of 0.1 ounces, with an average of 12.1 ounces. if the can's contents follow a normal distribution, what is the probability that the mean contents of a six pack are less than 12 ounces?

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.

Alpha industries is considering a project with an initial cost of $8 million. the project will produce cash inflows of $1.49 million per year for 8 years. the project has the same risk as the firm. the firm has a pretax cost of debt of 5.61 percent and a cost of equity of 11.27 percent. the debt–equity ratio is .60 and the tax rate is 35 percent. what is the net present value of the project?