George buys 2.5 pounds of hamburger and 2 pounds of chicken per week when hamburger costs $4 per pound and chicken costs $5 per pound, and this bundle of goods costs him $20 per week. what will happen if the price of hamburger drops to $2 per pound and the price of chicken increases to $7.50 per pound? [note that george's original bundle of hamburger and chicken still costs $20 after these price changes.] a. george buys less hamburger and more chicken, and he is better off. b. george buys more hamburger and less chicken, and he is better off. c. george buys more hamburger and less chicken, and he is just as well off as before. d. george buys more hamburger and less chicken, and he is worse off. e george buys the same amounts of hamburger and chicken as before, and he is just as well off as before. f. george buys less hamburger and more chicken, and he is worse off.

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Price and efficiency variances, journal entries. the schuyler corporation manufactures lamps. it has set up the following standards per finished unit for direct materials and direct manufacturing labor: direct materials: 10 lb. at $4.50 per lb. $45.00 direct manufacturing labor: 0.5 hour at $30 per hour 15.00 the number of finished units budgeted for january 2017 was 10,000; 9,850 units were actually produced. actual results in january 2017 were as follows: direct materials: 98,055 lb. used direct manufacturing labor: 4,900 hours $154,350 assume that there was no beginning inventory of either direct materials or finished units. during the month, materials purchased amounted to 100,000 lb., at a total cost of $465,000. input price variances are isolated upon purchase. input-efficiency variances are isolated at the time of usage. 1. compute the january 2017 price and efficiency variances of direct materials and direct manufacturing labor. 2. prepare journal entries to record the variances in requirement 1. 3. comment on the january 2017 price and efficiency variances of schuyler corporation. 4. why might schuyler calculate direct materials price variances and direct materials efficiency variances with reference to different points in time

When the federal reserve buys and sells bonds to member banks, it is called a. monetary policy b. reserve ratio c. interest rate adjustment d. open market operations