Suppose you have a monthly entertainment budget that you use to rent movies and purchase cds. you currently use your income to rent 5 movies per month at a cost of $5.00 per movie and to purchase 5 cds per month at a cost of $10.00 per cd. your marginal utility from the fifth movie is 50 and your marginal utility from the fifth cd is 96. are you maximizing utillty? you are? a. maximizing utility because you are consuming an equal number of movies and cds. b. not maximizing utility because the marginal utility per dollar spent on movles is not equal to the marginal utility per dollar spent on cds. c. not maximizing utility because the marginal utity of movies is not equal to the marginal utility of cds. d. maximizing utility because you are spending all of your entertalnment budget. e. not maximizing utility because the price of movies is not equal to the price of cds.

Upscale hotels in the united states recently cut their prices by 20 percent in an effort to bolster dwindling occupancy rates among business travelers. a survey performed by a major research organization indicated that businesses are wary of current economic conditions and are now resorting to electronic media, such as the internet and the telephone, to transact business. assume a company's budget permits it to spend $5,000 per month on either business travel or electronic media to transact business. graphically illustrate how a 20 percent decline in the price of business travel would impact this company's budget set if the price of business travel was initially $1,000 per trip and the price of electronic media was $500 per hour. suppose that, after the price of business travel drops, the company issues a report indicating that its marginal rate of substitution between electronic media and business travel is 1. is the company allocating resources efficiently? explain.

Which of the following is not part of the mission statement of the department of homeland security? lead the unified national effort to secure america protect against and respond to threats and hazards to the nation ensure safe and secure borders coordinate intelligence operations against terrorists in other countries

Rossdale co. stock currently sells for $68.91 per share and has a beta of 0.88. the market risk premium is 7.10 percent and the risk-free rate is 2.91 percent annually. the company just paid a dividend of $3.57 per share, which it has pledged to increase at an annual rate of 3.25 percent indefinitely. what is your best estimate of the company's cost of equity?