Your company wants to create a customer facing website. Analysts estimate it will take about 300 effective hours on the back end systems, and about 250 effective hours on the front end systems. Your company doesn't have the expertise to develop the website in-house, so the services must be hired out. This project has been allotted $25,000 budget. Three developers have offered their services at varying rates, availability, and with admitted efficiencies (where .75 means "I get about 45 minutes worth of work done in an hour"). Developers can only work on the systems indicated by "Yes", and cannot work more hours than they have available. Effective hours worked must equal required effective hours. Use solver (Simplex, not GRG or evolutionary) to find a way to minimize costs by determining how many hours (only whole hours) to hire each developer. SAVE BEFORE SOLVING!!! Please use the backup solver sheet if you accidentally delete formulas.

Consider the following scenarios. use what you have learned to decide if the goods and services being provided are individual, public, or merit goods. for each case, state what kind of good has been described and explain your answer using the definitions of individual, public, and merit goods. (6 points each) 1. from your window, you can see a city block that's on fire. you watch city firefighters rescue people and battle the flames to save the buildings. 2. while visiting relatives, you learn that your cousins attend a nearby elementary school that is supported financially by local property tax revenue. 3. you see a squadron of military jets flying overhead. 4. you find out that your aunt works for a defense manufacturing company that has several defense contracts with the government. she tells you that she works for a team that is producing a communications satellite. 5. your class visits a local jail run by a private, profit-making company that detains county criminals and is paid with tax revenue.

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.

Rachel died in 2014 and her executor is finalizing her estate tax return. the executor has determined that rachel’s adjusted gross estate is $10,120,000 and that her estate is entitled to a charitable deduction in the amount of $500,000. using 2014 rates, calculate the estate tax liability for rachel’s estate.