Teel Printing uses two measures of activity, press runs and book set-ups, in the cost formulas in its budgets and performance reports. The cost formula for wages and salaries is $8,850 per month plus $400 per press run plus $950 per book set-up. The company expected its activity in July to be 204 press runs and 111 book set-ups, but the actual activity was 201 press runs and 110 book set-ups. The actual cost for wages and salaries in July was $193,780. The activity variance for wages and salaries in July would be closest to:

1. all other things equal, according to the law of demand, when the price of a good falls, the demand for the good falls the demand for the good rises the quantity demanded of the good falls the quantity demanded of the good rises 2. when a market is in equilibrium, the quantity of the good that buyers are willing and able to buy exactly equals the quantity that sellers are willing and able to sell cannot be determined is less than the quantity that sellers are willing and able to sell is greater than the quantity that sellers are willing and able to sell 3. which of the following factors does not influence the demand for a good or service? consumer (buyer) income the price of related goods the number of sellers buyer expectations 4. when the number of sellers in a market increases, demand rises supply rises the price rises, all else equal the number of buyers falls

Afirm plans to begin production of a new small appliance. the manager must decide whether to purchase the motors for the appliance from a vendor at $10 each or to produce them in-house. either of two processes could be used for in-house production; process a would have an annual fixed cost of $200,000 and a variable cost of $7 per unit, and process b would have an annual fixed cost of $175,000 and a variable cost of $8 per unit. determine the range of annual volume for which each of the alternatives would be best. (round your first answer to the nearest whole number. include the indifference value itself in this answer.)

2. a computer equipment was acquired at the beginning of the year at a cost of $56,000 with an estimated residual value of $5,000, and an estimated useful life of five years. determine the second year’s depreciation expense using the straight-line method.