Abby starts up Bowls Bistro to serve and sell soups for workday lunches. Abby leases space in an office building owned by Carmen. The lease requires Abby to pay Carmen a base rental of $1,250, plus 10 percent of Bowls Bistro's profits, each month. The term is two years.

Abby hires Devin to take and fill customers' orders at an hourly wage of $15.00, plus tips. Abby and Carmen are:

A) not partners, because Carmen does not have an ownership interest or management rights in Bowls Bistro.

B) not partners, because the lease includes a "base rental."

C) not partners, because the rent includes only 10 percent of the profits.

D) partners in a partnership for two years.

Choose the statement that is incorrect. a. search activity occurs only in markets where there is a shortage. b. when a price is regulated and there is a shortage, search activity increases. c. the time spent looking for someone with whom to do business is called search activity. d. the opportunity cost of a good is equal to its price plus the value of the search time spent finding the good.

John's pizzeria and equilibrium john is selling his pizza for $6 per slice in an area of high demand. however, customers are not buying his pizza. using what you learned about the principles of equilibrium, write three to four sentences about how john could solve his problem.

Sean lives in dallas and runs a business that sells boats. in an average year, he receives $722,000 from selling boats. of this sales revenue, he must pay the manufacturer a wholesale cost of $422,000; he also pays wages and utility bills totaling $268,000. he owns his showroom; if he chooses to rent it out, he will receive $2,000 in rent per year. assume that the value of this showroom does not depreciate over the year. also, if sean does not operate this boat business, he can work as a paralegal, receive an annual salary of $21,000 with no additional monetary costs, and rent out his showroom at the $2,000 per year rate. no other costs are incurred in running this boat business.identify each of sean's costs in the following table as either an implicit cost or an explicit cost of selling boats.implicit costexplicit costthe wages and utility bills that sean pays the rental income sean could receive if he chose to rent out his showroom the salary sean could earn if he worked as a paralegal the wholesale cost for the boats that sean pays the